STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2648

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2035

       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 S.B. No. 2035, S.D. 1, 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)  Clarify that the chair, rather than the executive director, will be selected by the members of the Hawaii Health Authority from among their members; and

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

     No written comments were received by your Committee on this measure.

     Your Committee finds that the mission of the Hawaii Health Authority is the provision of universal health care for Hawaii's citizens.  This measure appropriates funds to support the Authority's efforts and corrects a technical error in statute regarding the proper title of the head of the Authority.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount.

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