Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 3283 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a comprehensive health care workforce map and database to compile and analyze data on the supply, demand, and distribution of all health care workers by specialty and practice.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Medical Association and Hawaii Medical Service Association.

Your Committees find that accurate, reliable, and comprehensive data is a necessary ingredient of any effective effort to plan for Hawaii's growing health care needs.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3283 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.