STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 724
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2023
RE: H.B. No. 406
H.D. 2
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2023
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Health & Homelessness and Corrections, Military & Veterans, to which was referred H.B. No. 406, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to:
(1) Require the Department of Health and Oahu Regional Health Care System to develop a strategic plan for the utilization of all Oahu Regional Health Care System facilities and report to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2024;
(2) Extend the assimilation of the Daniel K. Akaka State Veterans Home from the Department of Defense to the Oahu Regional Health Care System to June 30, 2024; and
(3) Require the Oahu Regional Health Care System to provide a progress report to the Legislature regarding construction of and the hiring of an operator for the Daniel K. Akaka State Veterans Home.
Your Committees find that the Daniel K. Akaka State Veterans Home was initially slated to be completed in the spring of 2023. However, due to COVID-19 impacts on parts production, shipping, and other supply chain issues, the facility is now expected to be completed sometime in 2024. Act 285, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, set the deadline for the transfer of the Daniel K. Akaka State Veterans Home from the Department of Defense to the Oahu Regional Health Care System on June 30, 2023. In light of the delays on the project, this measure provides for an extension of that deadline and a progress report on the construction of and the hiring of an operator for the Daniel K. Akaka State Veterans Home.
Your Committees have amended this measure by:
(1) Amending the progress report requirement to be a joint report by the Oahu Regional Health Care System and the Department of Defense to the Legislature regarding construction of and the hiring of an operator for the Daniel K. Akaka State Veterans Home;
(2) Changing the effective date to June 30, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health & Homelessness and Corrections, Military & Veterans that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 406, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 406, H.D. 2, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health & Homelessness and Corrections, Military & Veterans,
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____________________________ MARK J. HASHEM, Chair |
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____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair |
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