Bill Text: HI HB598 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Emergency Room Physicians; Tax Credit

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB598 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB598-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  73

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 598

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 598 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMERGENCY ON-CALL PHYSICIANS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to help increase hospital emergency room coverage by on-call physicians by establishing a tax credit for those physicians who provide on-call services to hospital emergency rooms.

 

     The Queen's Medical Center, Hawaii Medical Services Association, Hawaii Medical Association, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, Hawaii Association for Justice, and a concerned individual supported this bill.  The Department of Taxation and Tax Foundation of Hawaii provided comments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 598 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair