STAND. COM. REP. NO.  71-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1742

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1742 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION PRIMARY CARE TRAINING PROGRAM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to address the shortage of primary care providers in the State by appropriating funds for the interdisciplinary Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Primary Care Training Program at Hilo Medical Center.

 

     Hawai‘i Island Chamber of Commerce, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, Hilo Medical Center, Hilo Medical Center Foundation, Hawaii Medical Association, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, and several individuals testified in support of this measure.

 

On October 22, 2013, Hilo Medical Center was informed that the Hawaii Island Family Medicine Residency Program met the requirements for a two-year accreditation.  A total of 112 applications were received for the four family medicine residency positions.  Hilo Medical Center will welcome the first class of four residents in July 2014.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Deleting the amount of the appropriation; and

 

(2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2014,

 

to facilitate further discussion.  Your Committee also made technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

Should the House Committee on Finance deliberate on this measure, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $50,000 for Fiscal year 2014-2015 for the Interdisciplinary Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Primary Care Training Program at Hilo Medical Center.

 

     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 H.B. No. 1742, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1742, 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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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair