STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1895
Honolulu, Hawaii
H.D. 1
S.D. 1
President of the Senate
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health and Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 220, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of
this measure is to authorize a pharmacy to provide a customized patient
medication package to any patient of an institutional facility or any member of
the general public, subject to certain conditions.
Prior to the hearing on this
measure, your Committees posted and made available for public review a proposed
S.D. 1, which deletes the contents of this measure and inserts language to
appropriate funds for operating expenses of the Department of Health.
Your Committees received testimony in support of the proposed S.D. 1 from the Department of Health; Hawai‘i State Commission on the Status of Women; Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii; American Association of University Women of Hawaii; LGBT Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawaii; Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services; Hawaii Section of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii; Midwives Alliance of Hawaii; Hawaii Maternal and Infant Health Collaborative; and over ninety individuals. Your Committees received comments on the proposed S.D. 1 from the League of Women Voters.
Your Committees find that the Department of Health's family planning program provides preventive health services for low-income, underinsured, and other individuals and families with limited access to health care services. The Department of Health has provided these services for over forty years, which are now provided on six islands, through twelve contracts at thirty-one service sites. Your Committees further find that the proposed S.D. 1 appropriates or authorizes funds, amends positions, and amends means of financing for operating expenses of the Department of Health. Your Committees note that the proposed S.D. 1 will institutionalize the Department's family planning program, enable the continued delivery of important family planning services, and ensure that Hawaii residents continue to receive affordable, quality reproductive health care.
Your Committees also note that, according to testimony received by your Committees, H.B. No. 2, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, C.D. 1, the General Appropriations Act of 2019, omits a number of appropriations that have been requested by the Department of Health. Therefore, amendments to the proposed S.D. 1 are necessary to incorporate these appropriations.
Your Committees have amended this measure by adopting the proposed S.D. 1 and further amending the measure by:
(1) Clarifying the description for program ID HTH560;
(2) Inserting appropriations for program IDs HTH420, HTH440, HTH730, HTH907/AP, and HTH907; and
(3) 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 Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 220, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 220, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health and Ways and Means,
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________________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair |
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________________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair |
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