STAND. COM. REP. NO.3285

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 1357

H.D. 1

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1357, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make appropriations relating to health. In particular, the bill appropriates funds for ambulance services, dental service, emergency medical services, community health centers, respite care, sex abuse center, sign language interpreters, and a nursing scholarship program.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by deleting the contents and inserting provisions:

(1) Requiring moneys in the hospital and medical facilities special fund to be expended by the Department of Health to offset education program expenses of the hospital and medical facilities branch;

(2) Requiring moneys to be used to improve public outreach efforts and consultations to industries regulated, including educational programs;

(3) Limiting the amount that may be used annually for education;

(4) Requiring the Department of Health to submit an annual report to the Legislature concerning the status of the special fund;

(5) Requiring that fines for violations of the adult residential care home law be deposited into the general fund; and

(6) Requiring hospitals to provide for the security of personal effects of a patient that are necessary for the patient's health and well-being and that were in the patient's possession upon admission.

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 H.B. No. 1357, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1357, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair