Bill Text: HI HB1375 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Federally Qualified Health Centers; Patient-centered Health Care

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB1375 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1375-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  209

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1375

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1375 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to support federally qualified health centers as patient-centered health care homes to improve patient care, reduce errors, and reduce the overall fiscal burden on the State's health care system by establishing and directing funds to a federally qualified health center pilot project for the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 fiscal years.

 

     The Kupuna Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, Community Clinic of Maui, Hawaii Primary Care Association, Papa Ola Lokahi, and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Health opposed this measure. 

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1375 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services,

 

 

____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair