STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1922

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 888

H.D. 1

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 888, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO THE MAUI HEALTH SYSTEM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to support the operations of the Maui Health System, A Kaiser Foundation Hospitals LLC.

Your Committee received no written comments on this measure.

Your Committee finds that as the only health care provider on the neighbor islands that provides cardiac surgery, interventional cardiology, interventional neurosurgery, and neurosurgery, the operations of Maui Health System, A Kaiser Foundation Hospitals LLC, are critical to the health and well-being of many of the State's residents and visitors.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriations to unspecified amounts to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

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 H.B. No. 888, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 888, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair