STAND. COM. REP. NO. 460

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1447

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1447 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A MEDICAL FACILITY IN WEST MAUI,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriate funds for the planning, development, and construction of a medical facility in West Maui to provide expanded urgent care, emergent/emergency care, and long-term care services.

Specifically, this bill authorizes the issuance of an unspecified amount of general obligation bonds for this purpose.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill from a member of the Maui County Council, Maui Memorial Medical Center, West Maui Improvement Foundation, Maui County Planning Department, Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc., and four individuals. Two individuals submitted comments.

Your Committee finds that a total of $16,250,000 previously appropriated for the Kulamalu skilled nursing/intermediate care facility in the General Appropriations Act of 2003, as amended by the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2004, will lapse as of June 30, 2006. Your Committee believes that this money, previously appropriated out of the general obligation bond fund, should be made available for the purpose of funding the planning, development, and construction of the medical facility in West Maui.

Accordingly, your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Deleting reference to any specific site for the facility on page 2, lines 9-11, and replacing the reference with "on donated land";

(2) Adding a section that lapses the general obligation bond authorization and any funds appropriated under Act 200, Session Laws of Hawaii 2003, as amended by Act 41, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, for the purpose of constructing the Kulamalu skilled nursing/intermediate care facility;

(3) Inserting $16,250,000 as the amount of general obligation bonds to be authorized for issuance and appropriating the moneys therefrom for the planning, development, and construction of the medical facility in West Maui;

(4) Requiring the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to partner with Maui Memorial Medical Center to carry out the project in cooperation with health care providers and other stakeholders in West Maui; and

(5) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency, including appropriately re-numbering the sections of the bill.

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 S.B. No. 1447, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1447, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair