STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1002-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 3152

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 3152 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR THE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES AND INJURY PREVENTION SYSTEM BRANCH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate $1,807,539 in general revenues as an emergency appropriation to pay for costs associated with ambulance service contract collective bargaining increases negotiated by the ambulance services provider for the City and County of Honolulu.

     Pursuant to the requirements set forth in Article VII, section 9, of the Hawaii Constitution, the Governor, in Governor's Message No. 241 to the Legislature, requested immediate consideration and passage of this bill, citing an existing critical funding emergency to continue ambulance services on Oahu.

     The Department of Health and Emergency Medical Services Division of the City and County of Honolulu testified in support of this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the appropriation of $1,807,539 as follows:

     (1)  Appropriating $507,539 out of general revenues; and

     (2)  Appropriating $1,300,000 out of the Emergency Medical Services Special Fund.

     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. 3152, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 3152, H.D. 1.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair