STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1046_______

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1149
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
1149 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR THE
     HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide emergency funding for
the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation (Corporation) to:

     (1)  Meet Year 2000 compliance for its systems and
          equipment; and

     (2)  Reduce workers' compensation costs.

     Your Committee has received a message from the Governor,
dated February 3, 1999:

     (1)  Stating that the funding is needed to meet Year 2000
          compliance for systems and equipment and reduce
          workers' compensations costs of the Corporation; and

     (2)  Requesting the timely passage of this measure because a
          funding requirement for the Corporation must be
          accommodated by March 1, 1999, and the timely passage
          of a Supplemental Appropriations Act that amends fiscal
          year 1999 appropriations cannot be assured.

     The Corporation commented on this bill.

 
 
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     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical,
nonsubstantive changes for style and clarity.

     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 H.B. No.
1149, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1149, H.D. 1.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair