Bill Text: HI SB1046 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Health Professional Education; Workforce Development; Rural Areas; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB1046 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB1046-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1664

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1046

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1046, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to address the problem of medically underserved rural communities by appropriating funds for the Hawaii Quentin Burdick Rural Health Interdisciplinary Training Program.

 

     The Hawaii Medical Association, Hawaii Medical Service Association, and numerous concerned individuals supported this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

 

     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 S.B. No. 1046, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1046, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair