Bill Text: HI HB695 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Health Care Services; Duplicative Services

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB695 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB695-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  509

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 695

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 695 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CARE SERVICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to stabilize our health care industry by requiring the State Health Planning and Development Agency to determine the need for new health services proposed to be offered within the state and assess existing health care services and facilities to find if there are redundant, excessive, or inappropriate services or facilities.

 

     The League of Women Voters supported this bill.  The Association for Improved Healthcare on Maui opposed this measure.  The Department of Health submitted comments.

 

     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. 695 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair