STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1100

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 608

       H.D. 3

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 608, H.D. 3, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds, subject to dollar-for-dollar private matching funds, to sustain Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services-certified organ transplant operations in Hawaii and maintain a federally-recognized chronic kidney disease management program.

 

     Your Committee finds that there is a critical need to fund a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services-certified kidney and liver transplant facility in Hawaii to help ensure that residents of the State with end-stage diseases are not forced to register on transplant waiting lists for mainland transplant centers, which drastically increases the waiting time and risk of not receiving life-saving treatment.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 608, H.D. 3, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair