STAND. COM. REP. 2953

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2170

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2170, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR REHABILITATION HOSPITAL OF THE PACIFIC,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of $20,000,000 in special purpose revenue bonds for construction improvements and expansion for the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific.

Your Committee finds that the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific is the only rehabilitation hospital in Hawaii and provides much needed services to the residents of the State. The hospital needs to expand its outpatient clinic, inpatient beds, construct a new parking garage, and upgrade physicians' and administrative spaces.

Your Committee further finds that the financing of the project in this measure constitutes assistance to a health care facility and is in the public interest.

Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its contents and replacing it with the contents of S.B. No. 2578, which has the appropriate effective date.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2170, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2170, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair