Bill Text: HI SB2490 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Community Health Centers

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-18 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting no (0) and Cabanilla, Finnegan, Manahan, M. Oshiro excused (4). [SB2490 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2490-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  820-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2490

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2490, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds from the Community Health Centers Special Fund (Special Fund) for use by community health centers and to direct the Governor and the Department of Health (DOH) to release the funds in the Special Fund for use in fiscal year 2010-2011.

 

     The Kailua Neighborhood Board No. 31, Hawaii Primary Care Association, and The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii supported this bill.  DOH supported the intent of this measure.  The Department of the Attorney General submitted comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Establishing an expenditure ceiling of $15,000,000 for the Special Fund;

 

(2)  Providing that no other funding appropriated for expenditure by DOH may be released by the Governor prior to the release of the funds appropriated by this bill;

 

(3)  Deleting provisions that required the Governor to release funds in the Special Fund for use in fiscal year 2010-2011; and

 

(4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 2490, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2490, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair