STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3209

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 89

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 89 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO AMEND THE UNITED STATES CODE TO ENSURE THAT THE PROGRAMS AND SERVICES OF THE NATIVE HAWAIIAN HEALTH CARE IMPROVEMENT ACT RECEIVE PERMANENT FUNDING,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request that the United States Congress amend the United States Code to ensure that the programs and services of the Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act receive permanent funding.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Ke Ola Mamo, Hui Mālama Ola Nā ‘Ōiwi, Papa Ola Lokahi, Ho‘ōla Lāhui Hawai‘i, and three individuals.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from Na Pu‘uwai.

     Your Committees find that this measure urges the United States Congress to establish permanent funding for the Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act to address the unmet health needs of the Native Hawaiian people, whose health as a group continues to be far below that of the general population of the United States.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 89, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 89, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health,

________________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair

________________________________ MAILE S.L. SHIMABUKURO, Chair