STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2576

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3083

       S.D. 2

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3083, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make emergency appropriations for fiscal year 2007-2008 to the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to pay current, essential vendors, reduce accounts payable, and allow operation and provision of current levels of service in Hawaii Health Systems Corporation's facilities, including Maui Memorial Medical Center.

     Specifically, this measure appropriates $14,000,000 in section 3(a) to the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation; provided that the operating loan that is being negotiated by Maui Memorial Medical Center closes prior to the enactment of the measure.  The measure further appropriates $11,000,000 to the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation; provided that the same operating loan being negotiated by the Maui Memorial Medical Center is not able to close before the enactment of this measure.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Board of Directors and the President of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, the Maui Memorial Medical Center, and the Hawaii Government Employees Association.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended the measure as follows:

(1)  To clarify that:

(A)  The Maui Memorial Medical Center facility is included in the total appropriation of $25,000,000 to the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to pay for operation and provision of current levels of service;

(B)  The appropriation is to be expended as follows:

(i)  The $14,000,000 appropriation to the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation is made unconditionally; and

    (ii)  The $11,000,000 appropriation shall only be made if the operating loan that is being negotiated by Maui Memorial Medical Center does not close prior to the effective date of this measure.

(2)  Changing the phrase "enactment" to "effective date" in section 3; and

(3)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3083, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3083, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair