STAND. COM. REP. NO. 135

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 266

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 266 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CORONAVIRUS 2019 PANDEMIC,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate monies in order to assure sufficient resources to sustain and enhance the State's coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic response.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health and Department of Human Services.

Your Committee finds that another bill, S.B. No. 1088, also appropriate funds for response activities to the coronavirus 2019 disease and to provide transparency and accountability for the use of those funds. Your Committee further finds that S.B. No. 1088 identifies specific purposes for which appropriated monies will be spent.

Therefore, your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Replacing its contents with the contents of S.B. No. 1088;

(2) Inserting blank appropriation amounts;

(3) Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

(4) 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 Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 266, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 266, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

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JARRETT KEOHOKALOLE, Chair