STAND. COM. REP. NO. 113

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 816

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 816 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for various capital improvement projects of the Department of Health.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation and Maui Health System. Your Committee received comments on this measure from Kahuku Medical Center.

Your Committee finds that this measure expresses adjustments to the projects funded, maximum sums appropriated or authorized, or means of financing indicated for the Department of Health in the General Appropriations Act of 2017, as amended by the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2018.

Your Committee's intent in recommending this measure for passage is for the adjustments expressed to be incorporated into the General Appropriations Act of 2019 or other appropriate legislative vehicle or to be adopted separately. As such, your Committee requests your Committee on Ways and Means to incorporate the adjustments expressed by this measure into the appropriate legislative vehicle or amend this measure to include any provisions necessary to effectuate its purpose and intent.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Increasing the appropriation amounts to the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation regions for fiscal year 2019-2020 and fiscal year 2020-2021; and

(2) Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment 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 S.B. No. 816, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 816, 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