STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1655-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   S.B. No. 3074

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 3074, 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 measure is to appropriate emergency funds for fiscal year 2007-2008 for the collective bargaining costs of the City and County of Honolulu's emergency medical service personnel.  Specifically, this measure appropriates:

     (1)  $707,539 from the State General Fund; and

     (2)  $1,100,000 from the Emergency Medical Services Special Fund.

     Pursuant to the requirements set forth in Article VII, Section 9, of the Hawaii State Constitution, the Governor, in her Governor's Message No. 254 to the Senate, requested immediate consideration and passage of this bill by the Legislature citing an existing critical funding shortage.

     The Department of Health testified in support of this bill.

     Your Committee amended this bill by changing the appropriation amounts as follows:

     (1)  $507,539, instead of $707,539 from the State General Fund; and

     (2)  $1,300,000, instead of $1,100,000, from the Emergency Medical Services Special Fund.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3074, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3074, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair