STAND. COM. REP. NO.  356-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 3152

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, 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 as an emergency appropriation to reimburse costs associated with ambulance service contract collective bargaining increases negotiated by the ambulance services provider for Oahu, the City and County of Honolulu.

     Pursuant to the requirements set forth in Article VII, Section 9, of the Hawaii Constitution, the Governor, in her 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 supported this bill.

     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. 3152 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair