Bill Text: HI SB2019 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Appropriation; Vector Control Branch

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-15 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to WAM. [SB2019 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2019-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2186

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2019

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2019 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE VECTOR CONTROL BRANCH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to restore the funding level of the Vector Control Branch of the Department of Health to its fiscal year 2007-2008 level.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the United Public Workers, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, and two individuals.  Your Committee received comments from the Department of Health.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Vector Control Branch serves a critical public health purpose that no other entity, private or public, addresses and that at the current funding level, the Vector Control Branch is not able to fulfill its required duties.

 

     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. 2019 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

		____________________________ JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair