STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2203

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2515

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2515 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOLOKAI GENERAL HOSPITAL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to improve health care services at Moloka‘i General Hospital by appropriating $400,000 for the purchase of a new x-ray unit.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Moloka‘i General Hospital and two individuals.  The Department of the Attorney General submitted comments on this measure.

     Your Committee finds that the x-ray unit that is currently being used at Moloka‘i General Hospital is archaic and needs to be upgraded in order to provide quality health care service to the residents and visitors of the island of Moloka‘i.  Your Committee further finds that the appropriation should be issued as a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to achieve the purpose of this measure.

     Your Committee has adopted the recommendations of the Department of the Attorney General and amended this measure by inserting language to clarify that the appropriation is in the form of a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     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. 2515, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2515, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair