STAND. COM. REP. 1335

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 402

S.D. 2

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 402, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAL EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to establish the Graduate Medical Education Program to be administered by the Medical Education Council in cooperation with the Department of Health (DOH) to coordinate graduate medical education in the State.

The University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine, Queen's Medical Center, Hawaii Pacific Health, and Wahiawa General Hospital testified in support of this bill. DOH supported the intent of the bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Specifying that the Medical Education Council is to be established within the University of Hawaii; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments to this bill for purposes of style and consistency.

 

 

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 S.B. No. 402, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 402, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair