Bill Text: HI HB1203 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Physicians; Assessment Fee

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2012-04-13 - (S) Received notice of discharge of conferees (Hse. Com. No. 548). [HB1203 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1203-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1186

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1203

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1203, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PHYSICIAN WORKFORCE ASSESSMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to permit continued use by policy makers of physician workforce assessment information.

 

     Specifically, this measure:

 

     (1)  Makes the physician workforce assessment fee permanent;

 

     (2)  Removes the expenditure cap from the John A. Burns School of Medicine Special Fund;

 

     (3)  Specifies the issues to be addressed in the physician assessment and workforce planning funded by the physician assessment fee; and

 

     (4)  Requires the John A. Burns School of Medicine to provide an annual report to the Legislature regarding the school's physician workforce assessment and planning activities.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from Virginia S. Hinshaw, Chancellor, and Jerris Hedges, Dean, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa; and Dr. Morris Mitsunaga, President, Hawaii Medical Association.

 

     Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Hawaii Medical Board.

 

     Your Committee finds that the physician workforce assessment has helped policy makers gather reliable information for use in creating policy that furthers the ability of physicians to meet the medical needs of Hawaii's population.  Making the physician workforce assessment fee permanent will secure the benefits of this program for the future.

 

     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 H.B. No. 1203, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair