Bill Text: HI SB2493 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Tobacco Fund Settlement Continued for UH Medical School

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-04-21 - (S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-23-10 1:30PM in conference room 229. [SB2493 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2493-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1114-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2493

      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 Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2493, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO USE OF TOBACCO SETTLEMENT FUNDS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to extend the use of a portion of the tobacco settlement funds allocated to the John A. Burns School of Medicine for annual operating expenses to 2015.  This bill also reallocates monies in the Hawaii Tobacco Settlement Special Fund (Fund).

 

     The University of Hawaii System (UH), Healthcare Association of Hawaii, Hawaii State Rural Health Association, and Queen's Health Systems testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Budget and Finance, Hawaii Smokers Alliance, and a concerned individual opposed this measure.  The American Cancer Society Hawaii Pacific, Inc., and Coalition for a Tobacco Free Hawaii provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the provision that reapportions monies in the Fund;

 

     (2)  Requiring the Department of Health and UH to prepare a detailed accounting of all specified revenues and expenditures;

 

     (3)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010; and

 

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

 

     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. 2493, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2493, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair