STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1221-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   S.B. No. 2041

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services & Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2041 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure that Hawaii's residents have continued access to quality health care and to meet the rising costs of health care by appropriating funds for the State's portion of the federal disproportionate share hospital allowance.

     The Queen's Medical Center, Hawaii Pacific Health, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, and Healthcare Association of Hawaii testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Human Services supported the intent of this measure.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services & Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2041 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services & Housing,

____________________________ MAILE SHIMABUKURO, Chair

____________________________ JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair