STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1308

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   S.B. No. 1458

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1458, S.D. 1, 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 $439,684 as an emergency appropriation to reimburse costs associated with the delivery of emergency aeromedical services on Oahu by the Hawaii Army National Guard or other provider.

     Pursuant to the requirements set forth in Article VII, Section 9, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii, the Governor, in her Governor's Message No. 249 to the Legislature, requested immediate consideration and passage of this bill, citing an existing critical funding emergency to continue aeromedical services on Oahu.

     The Department of Health supported this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1)  Changing the appropriation amount to $1,900,000 to match the amount originally identified in the Governor's Message No. 249; and

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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 S.B. No. 1458, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1458, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, 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