STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2903

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2664

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2664, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CARE COORDINATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a public-private partnership in a county with a population between one hundred thousand and one hundred seventy thousand to develop a health care model to deliver health care across the spectrum of care and particularly to address the challenges in acute care.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from three members of the County Council, County of Maui; Hawaii Health Systems Corporation; two representatives of the Hale Makua Health Services; two members of the Hale Makua Health Services Board of Directors; Maui Memorial Medical Center; United Public Workers; ILWU Local 142; and two individuals.

     Your Committee finds that the partnership established by this measure will address the crisis in the post-acute care environment and health care access and quality of care at all levels while maximizing capacity and increasing the operational and financial viability of public and private providers.  Your Committee further finds that the Attorney General has concerns about this measure as currently drafted, but the Attorney General has not yet shared those concerns with your Committee.  Once those concerns become available as this measure progresses through the legislative process, your Committee will share them with your Committee on Ways and Means.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to allow for further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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. 2664, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2664, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair