STAND. COM. REP. NO.  477-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2316

      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. 2316 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to provide emergency funding to the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation (HHSC) to address the funding shortfall by appropriating $15,500,000 for Fiscal Year 2013-2014 to support the functions of HHSC and its regional health care systems in sustaining their services.

 

Pursuant to the requirements set forth in Article VII, Section 9, of the Hawaii State Constitution, the Governor, in Governor's Message No. 188 to the Legislature, requested immediate consideration and passage of this bill by the Legislature.

 

The HHSC Corporate Board of Directors; HHSC Kauai Region Board of Directors; United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO; and an individual supported this measure.

 

    
     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Deleting the specified amount in the appropriation; and

 

(2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050,

 

to facilitate continued discussion.  Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were made for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

Your Committee notes HHSC's emergency appropriation request of $18,200,000 for Fiscal Year 2013-2014 as indicated in its testimony.

 

     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. 2316, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2316, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

 

 

 

 

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair