STAND. COM. REP. NO. 402-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: H.B. No. 2590

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2590 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill, as received, is to:

(1) Authorize an income tax check-off for juvenile diabetes cure research; and

(2) Establish the Juvenile Diabetes Cure Research Special Fund.

The Department of Health and Department of Taxation commented on this bill.

Your Committee, having heard and passed a similar measure prior to hearing this bill, has amended this bill by replacing its contents and inserting the provisions of H.B. No. 2794. As amended, this bill provides for important emergency services at the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center (WCCHC).

Specifically, this bill makes an appropriation to WCCHC to:

(1) Provide vital health care services to an estimated population of 40,000 people; and

(2) Ensure continued twenty-four-hour emergency room and ambulatory service to Leeward, Oahu.

WCCHC supported this bill, as amended. The Department of Health supported the intent of this measure, as amended.

Technical, nonsubstantive changes were also made for clarity, consistency, and style.

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 H.B. No. 2590, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2590, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

 

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DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair