STAND. COM. REP. NO.  368

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 608

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 608, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to help ensure that organ transplant patients are able to remain in the Islands near their support networks by appropriating general revenues to support ongoing services provided by a qualified provider to perform kidney and liver transplants and support a chronic kidney disease management program.

 

     The National Kidney Foundation of Hawaii and several concerned individuals supported this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Removing language that refers to the appropriation as a grant; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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 H.B. No. 608, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 608, H.D. 2, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair