STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1308
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: H.B. No. 343
H.D. 1
S.D. 2
Honorable Colleen Hanabusa
President of the Senate
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2009
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 343, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RURAL PRIMARY HEALTH CARE TRAINING,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to support rural primary health care services by expanding the Family Medicine Residency program at the John A. Burns School of Medicine and developing a permanent statewide rural primary health care program in each county, beginning in Hawaii County.
Your Committee received one written comment on this measure. The written comment may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.
Your Committee finds that there is a shortage of basic health care services and preventive care services available to residents in rural areas of the State. Your Committee believes that it is important to develop programs that will increase access to primary care and family physicians in underserved areas of the State.
Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the amount of the appropriation to $1 to facilitate further discussion.
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 H.B. No. 343, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 343, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair |
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