STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1654-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2041

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2041 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure that Hawaii's residents

have continued access to quality health care and can meet the rising costs of health care by appropriating funds for the State's portion of the federal disproportionate share hospital allowance.

 

     The Queen's Medical Center, Hawaii Pacific Health, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, and Healthcare Association of Hawaii testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Human Services provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for 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 S.B. No. 2041, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2041, H.D. 1.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair