STAND. COM. REP. NO. 804

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1463

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1463 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation to the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.

     More specifically, the bill raises the expenditure ceiling of the health systems special fund to provide sufficient funds to the corporation for operational costs.

     Your Committee received comments in support of the bill from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.

     Your Committee finds that the current special fund ceiling is not sufficient to cover the operating costs for fiscal year 2006-2007.

     Your Committee finds that raising the expenditure ceiling of the health systems special will enable the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to provide the levels of services necessary to meet community that have substantially increased beyond amounts anticipated and budgeted.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1463 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair