Bill Text: HI SB1339 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Rural Areas; Federal Programs

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-25 - Act 144, 6/21/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1247). [SB1339 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1339-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1049

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1339

      S.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1339, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RURAL AREAS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to ensure that the State's rural communities will continue to receive federal funds for services by designating areas in the State as rural for the purposes of participation in federal programs that accept state definitions of a rural area.

 

     The Department of Health, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and Healthcare Association of Hawaii testified in support 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. 1339, S.D. 1, 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,

 

 

		____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair