STAND. COM. REP. NO.  894

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 608

      H.D. 3

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 608, H.D. 2, 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 and receive efficient and timely care by appropriating moneys to sustain a qualified provider with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services certification to provide kidney and liver transplant operations in Hawaii and maintain a federally-recognized 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)  Requiring dollar-for-dollar private matching funds;

     (2)  Deleting the amount of the appropriation;

     (3)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to promote further discussion; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 608, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 608, H.D. 3.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair