STAND. COM. REP. NO.  153-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2023

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2023 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CENTER FOR NURSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make permanent the assessment of the Center for Nursing fees, deposit of fees into the Compliance Resolution Fund, and the disbursement of those funds to the Center for Nursing Special Fund.

The University of Hawaii at Manoa; Hawaii State Center for Nursing; Board of Nursing; Workforce Development Council; Hawaii Pacific Health; Kahi Mohala Behavioral Health; Hawai‘i Association of Professional Nurses; Hawaii Association of Nurse Executives; The Queen's Medical Center; Hawaii Medical Service Association; Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; and many concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.

     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. 2023 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Higher Education.

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

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair