STAND. COM. REP. 832

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 551

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 551, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATED TO THE STATE HEALTH PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to exempt a master planned health care center and retirement community located in Wahiawa from the certificate of need process.

The Wahiawa-Central Oahu Health Center submitted testimony in support of this measure. The Wahiawa General Hospital, Wahiawa Hospital Association, Pyrus, Incorporated, and Pacific SportsCare supported this measure with amendments. The Hawaii Disability Rights Center, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, Hawaii Long Term Care Association, and St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 551, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 551, H.D. 2.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair