STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1176

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 972
                                        H.D. 1
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was
referred H.B. No. 972, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL
     PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATIONS THAT
     PROVIDE HEALTH CARE FACILITIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of
special purpose revenue bonds for not-for-profit corporations
that provide health care facilities.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Wahiawa General Hospital, Central Oahu Physician
Hospital Organization, and Mililani-Mauka Neighborhood Board.
The Wahiawa Hospital Association presented a petition with 487
signatures in support of this measure.

     Your Committee finds that this measure would assist
Wahiawa-Central Oahu Health Center Inc., a not-for-profit Hawaii
corporation, through the issuance of special purpose revenue
bonds in an amount not exceeding $13,100,000.  The funds will be
used in connection with the establishment of a new health care
facility, for the acquisition or leasing of land for a new
facility, acquisition and installation of additional capital
equipment, and plans, design, construction, and operation of a
new health care facility.


 
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     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Correcting the references to the entity as
          Wahiawa-Central Oahu Health Center;

     (2)  Deleting reference to a thirty acre facility; and

     (3)  Increasing the appropriated amount from $13,100,000, to
          $40,000,000.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Health and Human Services that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 972, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B.
No. 972, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways
and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Health and Human
                                   Services,



                                   ______________________________
                                   SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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