STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3072

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2546

H.D. 2

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2546, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AN OUTPATIENT CENTER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for the John A. Burns School of Medicine family medicine residency program.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, University of Hawai‘i System, University Health Partners of Hawaii, O‘ahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i, Hawaii Island Family Medicine Residency Program at Hilo Medical Center, Hawaii Pacific Health, Pali Momi Medical Center, and seven individuals.

Your Committee finds that this measure appropriates funds to establish a family medicine office practice and team-based training outpatient center to serve as the family medicine office practice for the John A. Burns School of Medicine family medicine residency program. Your Committee further finds that this center will provide medical services to Hawaii residents and encourage the future doctors trained there to remain in the State. Your Committee also finds that the center will be able to easily cooperate with the nearby Pali Momi Medical Center.

Your Committee notes that this measure appropriates funds to be spent on behalf of the John A. Burns School of Medicine family medicine residency program, but that the funds are designated to be expended by the Department of Health and not by the University of Hawaii. Accordingly, without expressing a preference, your Committee requests that your Committee on Ways and Means determine the appropriate expending agency as that is a matter within its purview.

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2546, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2546, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair