STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1673-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2958

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2958, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate moneys as a grant pursuant to Chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children to implement a peripheral blood stem cell/apheresis program.

 

     Hawaii Pacific Health, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, and an individual testified in support of this measure.  The Department of the Attorney General and the Department of Health commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Deleting the specified amount from the appropriation; and

 

(2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to facilitate further discussion.

 


     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 S.B. No. 2958, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2958, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair