STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1044-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   S.B. No. 2182

      H.D. 1

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 S.B. No. 2182 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 and deposit of Center for Nursing fees into the compliance resolution fund and the disbursement of those moneys to the Center for Nursing special fund.

The School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene at the University of Hawaii at Manoa; Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; Board of Nursing; Hawaii Health Systems Corporation; Healthcare Association of Hawaii; Hawaii Chapter of the American Organization of Nurse Executives; Hawaii State Center for Nursing; Hawaii Association of Professional Nurses; Hawaii Pacific Health; and several concerned individuals supported the measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to promote 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 S.B. No. 2182, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2182, H.D. 1, 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