Bill Text: HI SB664 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

---

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to HLT, FIN, referral sheet 30 [SB664 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB664-Amended.html

---

 

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 597

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 664

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 664, 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 funds for the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Primary Care Training Program at the Hilo Medical Center.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Hawaii County Council, Kauai County Council, County of Hawaii Office of Aging, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation East Hawaii Regional Board, Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Hawaii, Hilo Medical Center Foundation, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, and fourteen concerned individuals.

 

     Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Hilo Medical Council, the University of Hawaii at Hilo College of Pharmacy, Hui Malama Ola Na 'Oiwi Native Hawaiian Health Care System, and two concerned individuals.

 

     Your Committee recognizes that there is a severe shortage of healthcare providers in the State, especially primary care providers.  Accordingly, your Committee finds that funding the expansion of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Primary Care Training Program at the Hilo Medical Center will benefit the State by providing training for more primary care providers and thereby improving access to health care services.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount;

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion on the measure; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 664, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 664, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair