Bill Text: HI SB417 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Hawaii Health System Corporation; Corporation Board; Regional System Board; Membership

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-23 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Herkes excused (1). [SB417 Detail]

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1240-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 417

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 417, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to change the composition of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation board and regional boards by:

 

     (1)  Removing the five regional chief executive officers and the at-large member appointed by the Governor from the corporation board;

 

     (2)  Adding one member representing each region to the corporation board;

 

     (3)  Adding one member to alternately represent the eastern and western sections of the County of Hawaii; and

 

     (4)  Changing the term of the newly-appointed regional system board members from three years to a term between two and five years, as determined at the time of appointment by a two-thirds affirmative vote of the existing regional system board members.

 

     Hawaii Health Systems Corporation testified in support of this measure.  Maui Memorial Medical Center opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Removing the purpose and findings section;

 

     (2)  Retaining existing statutory provisions regarding the composition of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Board;

 

     (3)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage continued discussion; 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 Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 417, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 417, 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