Bill Text: HI SCR44 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: UH Hilo College of Pharmacy; Beacon Community Program

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-19 - (S) Report adopted, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SCR44 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SCR44-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2826

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 44

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 44 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION EXPRESSING SUPPORT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO COLLEGE OF PHARMACY'S EFFORTS TO OBTAIN FEDERAL FUNDING TO ESTABLISH THE BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII AS A BEACON COMMUNITY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to express support for the University of Hawaii at Hilo College of Pharmacy's efforts to obtain federal funding to establish the Big Island of Hawaii as a beacon community.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the University of Hawaii at Hilo College of Pharmacy and the Hawaii Medical Service Association.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee supports the efforts of the University of Hawaii at Hilo College of Pharmacy, the Hawaii County Beacon Community Consortium, and other organizations in pursuing federal funding for the Big Island of Hawaii to participate in the Beacon Community Program.  Your Committee finds that the Big Island of Hawaii's participation as a beacon community may ultimately yield significant statewide improvements in health information technology and exchange, enabling improved health and health care for Hawaii's residents. 

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 44, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 44, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education,

 

		____________________________ JILL TOKUDA, Chair