Bill Text: HI SB2958 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Bone Marrow Transplantation Program; Kapiolani Medical Center; Department of Health; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-10 - (S) Act 274, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1377). [SB2958 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2958-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2332

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2958

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2958 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to be expended by the Department of Health for the implementation of a new bone marrow transplantation program in the State.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the American Cancer Society, Hawaii Pacific Health, and one individual.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from ACLU of Hawaii.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Health.

 

     Your Committee finds that the closure of Hawaii Medical Center East resulted not only in the loss of Hawaii's only certified organ transplant center, but also the loss of bone marrow transplantation services.  Those needing transplants have the sole option of traveling to the mainland to receive services, which adds to the financial burden of these patients and makes it more difficult for the patient's family and other members of the patient's support system to accompany the patient.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an appropriation amount of $500,000.

 

     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. 2958, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2958, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

		____________________________ JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair