STAND. COM. REP. NO. 485

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1031
                                        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 S.B. No. 1031 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 administration measure is to make an
emergency appropriation for the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation
(HHSC).

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the HHSC.

     This measure is recommended by the Governor for immediate
passage to provide emergency funding for HHSC for Year 2000
compliance for computer equipment, settlement of workers'
compensation cases inherited by HHSC, and to cover collective
bargaining increases.

     Your Committee has made technical, nonsubstantive amendments
for purposes of clarity and style.

     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 S.B. No. 1031, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1031,
S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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



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                                   SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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