STAND. COM. REP. NO. 312

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 662

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. 662 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to support the Hawaii Health Corps.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Medical Association, Papa Ola Lokahi, and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that the State is currently facing a shortage of health care providers.  This measure will help extend health care services to rural and other underserved areas in the State.

     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. 662 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