STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2305

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1309

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1309 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE WAIANAE COAST COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTER,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to assist the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center to continue to provide twenty-four-hour care to the residents of the Waianae coast by appropriating state funding for that purpose.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center and the Hawai‘i Primary Care Association.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Health.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center is vital to ensure timely emergency medical services to the residents of the Waianae coast.  Your Committee further finds that without an appropriation from the State of $332,000, the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, one of most heavily utilized emergency service facilities on Oahu, will be forced to discontinue its twenty-four-hour per day emergency services.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Leaving the appropriation amount blank; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes to ensure clarity and accuracy in the language of this measure.

 

     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 S.B. No. 1309, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1309, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair