STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1351

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 656

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 656, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATIVE UNIFORMITY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to temporarily establish the health care transformation program within the Office of the Governor.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Office of the Governor, the Community Alliance for Mental Health, Hawaii Medical Services Association, and two individuals.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from one individual.

 

     Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Healthcare Association of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that the health care transformation program will provide the State with a means to support discussion among stakeholders that is necessary to increase administrative uniformity to improve the State's health care system.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate continued discussion.

 

     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. 656, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 656, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair