STAND. COM. REP. NO. 405

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1641
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health, to
which was referred H.B. No. 1641 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the
Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Human Services
(DHS) to support primary medical care for underserved members of
the community.

     The Health Care For The Homeless Project, Papa Ola Lokahi,
the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, the Office of
Hawaiian Affairs, Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition, and
Hawaii State Primary Care Association submitted testimony in
support of this measure.

     DHS supported the intent of the measure but requested that
any additional funding not replace the Executive Budget request.
The DOH also supported the intent of this bill, but deferred to
DHS.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Amending the appropriation amount to $1, for discussion
          purposes;


 
 
 
 
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     (2)  Eliminating the DOH appropriation and designating the
          DHS as the sole expending agency for the appropriation;
          and

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

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health that are
attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the
intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1641, as amended herein, and
recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto
as H.B. No. 1641, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on
Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Human Services
                                   and Housing and Health,

                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
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ALEXANDER C. SANTIAGO, Chair       DENNIS ARAKAKI, Chair