STAND. COM. REP. NO. 797

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1046

       S.D. 1

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 S.B. No. 1046 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii for the Hawaii Quentin Burdick rural health interdisciplinary training program.

     Your Committee received one comment on this measure.  Copies of written comments submitted are available for review on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committee finds that the Hawaii Quentin Burdick rural health interdisciplinary training program is sponsored by the University of Hawaii school of nursing and dental hygiene.  The Program provides opportunities for health science and education students from the University of Hawaii at Manoa to participate on interdisciplinary teams at rural sites with faculty and community members.  Your Committee believes that continued support of the Program will not only improve the education of many students in health care curriculums, but also assist the State in alleviating the shortage of health professionals in underserved rural communities.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2090 for the purposes of continued discussion of the matter.

     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. 1046, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1046, S.D. 1.

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

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair