STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3203
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: H.B. No. 2304
H.D. 2
S.D. 2
Honorable Donna Mercado Kim
President of the Senate
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2014
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2304, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE NEUROTRAUMA ADVISORY BOARD,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to reduce, from twenty-one to eleven, the number of members on the neurotrauma advisory board and to authorize the Director of Health to appoint up to three ex officio state and county nonvoting members.
No comments were submitted on this measure.
Your Committee finds that the smaller number of members will allow the board to achieve a quorum on a regular basis and improve the effectiveness of the board in assisting the Department of Health to meet its legislative charge.
Your Committee notes that while this measure does not establish a transition plan for the reduction in the size of the advisory board, your Committee believes that the Governor will be able to make the determination and can report to Legislature prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2015 explaining how this measure was implemented.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and
(2) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, style, and consistency.
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 H.B. No. 2304, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2304, H.D. 2, 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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