STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1025

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 212

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 212, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CARE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to better understand Hawaii's health care workforce by directing the Department of Health (DOH) to develop and maintain a secure statewide comprehensive health care workforce map and database on the supply and distribution of health care workers in Hawaii.  This bill also appropriates funds for this undertaking.

     The Mayor of the County of Hawaii, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, Maui Memorial Medical Center, Hawaii Pacific Health, Hawaii Medical Service Association, Hawaii Psychiatric Medical Association, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  DOH and the Department of Human Services offered comments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Requiring DOH to prepare a report for the 2008                 Legislature;

     (2)  Deleting the appropriation amounts;

     (3)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to                    encourage continued discussion; and

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style              and clarity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 212, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 212, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair