STAND. COM. REP. NO.  476-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2277

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2277 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CARE TRANSFORMATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to support health care transformation in the State by, among other things, effective July 1, 2015:

 

(1)  Establishing an Office of Health Care Transformation to be headed by a Health Care Transformation Officer within a newly-created Hawaii Health Care Planning and Policy Authority, which replaces the State Health Planning and Development Agency; and

 

(2)  Transferring the powers, duties, personnel, records, property, appropriations, funds, and other items specified in this measure of the Health Care Transformation Program temporarily placed in the Office of the Governor, to the Hawaii Health Care Planning and Policy Authority.

 

     The Office of the Governor, Department of Health, Hawaii Medical Service Association, Hawaii Pacific Health, Hoola Lahui Hawaii, Hawaii Primary Care Association, Community Alliance for Mental Health, United Self Help, and an individual supported this measure.  The Hawaii Health Authority and two individuals opposed this measure.

 

     Upon consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Extending from July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2017, the duration of the Health Care Transformation Program that is established and temporarily placed within the Office of the Governor;

 

(2)  Requiring the Governor to submit progress reports containing the Health Care Transformation Program to the Legislature prior to the 2015 and 2016 Regular Sessions, and extending the Governor's submittal of the final report to the Legislature on the Health Care Transformation Program to prior to the 2017 Regular Session;

 

(3)  Specifying that effective July 1, 2017, all rights, powers, functions, duties, appropriations, records, equipment, employees, deeds, leases, contracts, and other property of the Health Care Transformation Program in the Office of the Governor are transferred to the Hawaii Health Care Planning and Policy Authority;

 

(4)  Appropriating funds for the Healthcare Transformation Program Coordinator to carry out the functions, operations, and purposes of the Health Care Transformation Program;

 

(5)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage continued discussion; and

 

(6)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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 H.B. No. 2277, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2277, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair