STAND. COM. REP. NO. 350

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 138

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 138, S.D. 1, 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 issuance of general obligation bonds and make an appropriation for the planning, design, and construction of a new health care facility for the Kaheleaulani Native Hawaiian health program in North Hawaii.

     The Department of Budget and Finance submitted comments.

     Your Committee finds that in 2011, the North Hawaii Community Hospital established the Kaheleaulani Native Hawaiian health program to address the unmet medical needs of the Native Hawaiian population of North Hawaii.  This measure provides funding for a new health care facility for the Kaheleaulani Native Hawaiian health program.

     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. 138, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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, Chair