STAND. COM. REP. NO. 742
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 1336
S.D. 2
Honorable Donna Mercado Kim
President of the Senate
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1336, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CARE,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to designate Kahuku Medical Center as a rural hospital so that it may qualify and maintain its status as a critical access hospital.
Your Committee finds that the Social Security Act requires states to designate hospitals in areas that are officially non-rural, such as Kahuku, as rural hospitals to meet a requirement of the critical access hospital designation. Your Committee further finds that this measure expresses the intent of the State to designate Kahuku Medical Center as a rural hospital so that it may qualify and continue to be a critical access hospital.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Clarifying that the rural hospital designation shall be for purposes of qualifying as a critical access hospital;
(2) Deleting language in the new section specifying the duration of the rural hospital designation and adding language to the measure to provide for the repeal of the measure on June 30th of an unspecified year;
(3) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion on the measure; and
(4) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1336, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1336, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair |
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