STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2896

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 609

       H.D. 2

       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. 609, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to bring the Hawaii Medical Center-East facility under its governance through formal affiliation or acquisition.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.

     Your Committee finds that by establishing a public-private partnership between the owners of the facility previously known as the Hawaii Medical Center-East and the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, this measure provides crucial long-term care and other health care services in the State.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to allow for further discussion.

     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. 609, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 609, H.D. 2, 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