STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2655

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2866

       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 Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2866, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation to the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation for its necessary costs and operations.

     Your Committee received no written comments on this measure.

     Your Committee finds that the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation requires additional funding to meet the cost of collective bargaining pay raises and unanticipated Medicaid reimbursement cuts.  Your Committee also finds that the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation requires additional funding to pay overdue accounts in the Kauai region, as well as to continue to provide quality healthcare services, through its hospitals, without disrupting patient care.

     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. 2866, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair