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. 2587

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2958

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2958, S.D. 1, 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 moneys to the Department of Health for the implementation of a new bone marrow transplantation program in the State.

 

     Written comments in support of this measure were submitted by one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that bone marrow transplantation services are no longer available in the State and that persons must travel to the mainland to receive these services.  This is not only costly, but can be potentially harmful to the health of the person.

 

     Your Committee also finds that an appropriation to implement a new bone marrow transplantation program in the State will enable persons residing in the State to receive bone marrow transplantation services without having to travel to the mainland.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the appropriation amount to facilitate further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2958, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2958, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair