STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1150

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 962

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 962 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to improve access to, and the quality of, health care provided to patients suffering from chronic kidney disease by appropriating funds as a grant-in-aid for the St. Francis Healthcare Foundation to support the modified home care and community health demonstration project.

 

     The Department of Health, two members of the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA), National Kidney Foundation of Hawaii, and St. Francis Healthcare Foundation supported this bill.  OHA supported the intent of this measure. 

 

     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. 962 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair