STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2799

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2837

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2837, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OAHU REGIONAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide for the future management of the proposed Maui State Veterans Home.

Specifically, this measure requires the transfer of the Maui State Veterans Home from the Department of Defense to the Oahu Regional Health Care System.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Oahu Region of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation and one individual.

Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the Hawaii Government Employees Association.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.

Your Committee finds that although the Department of Defense is currently planning for the construction of the Maui State Veterans Home, the management, operation, and staffing of that facility should be placed under a state agency that has the expertise to manage a long-term care facility.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Amending section 323F-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to expressly authorize the Oahu Regional Health Care System to include the Maui State Veterans Home;

(2) Authorizing the assimilation of the Maui State Veterans Home on Maui into a state agency other than the Oahu Regional Health Care System;

(3) Changing the effective date to upon its approval; and

(4) Making a technical nonsubstantive amendment for purposes of consistency and style.

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 S.B. No. 2837, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2837, 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