STAND. COM. REP. NO. 623

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 992
                                        S.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 992, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HANA
     COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for the
Hana Community Health Center.

     Your Committee finds that the Hana Community Health Center
cannot operate effectively without additional legislative
appropriations.  This health center serves a rural population
that is isolated from the population center of Maui and the sick
or injured would be forced to drive for more than two hours to
Wailuku for medical attention if the health center is closed.
The health of Hana residents as well as the many tourists who
visit this section of Maui would be similarly hampered and
perhaps endangered by the lack of medical services.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by deleting the
specific amounts of the appropriations.

     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 S.B. No.

 
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992, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 992, S.D. 2.

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



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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