Bill Text: HI HB417 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Hawaii Health Systems Corporation; Primary Care Training Program ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-07-09 - Act 271, 7/9/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1377). [HB417 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB417-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  373

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 417

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 417 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to address the shortage of primary care providers in the State by appropriating funds for each year of the 2013-2015 fiscal biennium for the interdisciplinary Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Primary Care Training Program at Hilo Medical Center.

 

     The County of Hawaii, Hawaii County Council, University of Hawaii at Hilo College of Pharmacy, University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, East Hawaii Region of Hawaii Health Systems Corporation and its Board of Directors, The Queen's Health Systems, Hawaii Island Healthcare Alliance, Hilo Medical Foundation Board, Hawaii Medical Association, Hawaii Medical Service Association, Japanese Chamber of Commerce & Industry of Hawaii, Kona-Kohala Chamber of Commerce, Hilo Medical Center Wound Care Team, Hilo Medical Foundation Board, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, Hawaii State Center for Nursing, Hilo Medical Center Foundation, and numerous concerned individuals supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

 

(2)  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 H.B. No. 417, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 417, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair