STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2201

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2741

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. 2741 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE MAUI REGION OF THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to ensure the continued provision of quality long-term health care services in Maui by authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds in the amount of $15,000,000 for the planning, design, development, and equipment for additional long-term care beds in the Maui region of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Maui Memorial Medical Center.

     Your Committee finds that the Maui Health Initiative Task Force reported to the Legislature the need for more long-term care beds in the County of Maui.  Your Committee further finds that the general obligation bonds authorized by this measure will help to plan, design, develop, and equip additional long-term care beds in the Maui region.

     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. 2741 and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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