STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2306

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2035

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2035 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH AUTHORITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

     (1)  Replace the position of Executive Director of the Hawaii Health Authority with a Chair position; and

     (2)  Appropriate funds for operating expenses of the Authority.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from four individuals.

     Your Committee finds that the Hawaii Health Authority is responsible for overall health planning for the State.  Your Committee further finds that a $300,000 appropriation will support the mission of the Hawaii Health Authority to provide universal health care to Hawaii's citizens and enhance Hawaii's health care delivery system.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of January 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

     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. 2035, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2035, S.D. 1, 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