STAND. COM. REP. NO. 949

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 213

H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 213, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LOAN REPAYMENT FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Healthcare Education Loan Repayment Program.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the Governor; Department of Health; University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine; Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Corporate Board of Directors; Hawaiʻi State Center for Nursing; State Health Planning and Development Agency; Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition; Healthcare Association of Hawaii; Hawaiʻi Pacific Health; Hawaiʻi Primary Care Association; American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Hawaiʻi Section; Kaiser Permanente Hawaiʻi; The Queen's Health Systems; Hawaii Dental Association; Hawaii Association of Health Plans; AlohaCare; Hawaii Medical Association; Hawaiʻi – American Nurses Association; American Academy of Pediatrics, Hawaiʻi Chapter; Hawaii Medical Service Association; and numerous individuals.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 213, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair