STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1639-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 2213

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2213, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE NURSING FACILITY SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

     (1)  Continue the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program for an additional year; and

     (2)  Appropriate funds for fiscal year 2016-2017 from the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program Special Fund for uses consistent with the Fund.

The Department of Human Services, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, Hale Makua Wailuku, Hawaii Pacific Health, The Queen's Health Systems, Hawaii Primary Care Association, Chamber of Commerce Hawaii, and Legacy of Life Hawaii provided testimony in support of the measure.

     Your Committee has amended the measure by:

     (1)  Changing the appropriation amount to an unspecified sum; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2213, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2213, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair