STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3037

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1890

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1890, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR HEALTH CARE SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to provide funding for health care and other services for individuals living with the human immunodeficiency virus or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome that have low incomes or insufficient health insurance.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Clint Spencer Clinic, Life Foundation, Gregory House Programs, West Oahu Hope for a Cure Foundation, and nine individuals.  The Department of Health submitted testimony in opposition to this measure.

     Your Committee finds that, due to federal funding cutbacks, supplementary funding is necessary to continue services provided by the only acquired immunodeficiency syndrome clinical trials program in Hawaii.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2008.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1890, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1890, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

____________________________

DAVID Y. IGE, Chair