STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1130-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   S.B. No. 3074

      S.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 Health, 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 City and County of Honolulu's emergency medical service personnel.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health and the City and County of Honolulu's Emergency Services Department.

     This measure appropriates $707,539 from the state general fund and $1,100,000 from the emergency medical services special fund to cover the collective bargaining costs of City and County of Honolulu emergency medical services personnel for fiscal year 2007-2008.  Your Committee finds that this measure will enable the City and County of Honolulu to provide uninterrupted emergency ambulance services to all residents of Oahu.

     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. 3074, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair