STAND. COM. REP. 2155

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2979

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2979 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SECURITY AT HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION HOSPITALS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to transfer functions and authority of uniformed security employees and security contracts for the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation (HHSC) from the Department of Public Safety to HHSC.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Public Safety, the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, and the Hawaii Government Employees Association.

Your Committees find that the transfer of this security force to HHSC will facilitate more efficient supervision, management, and control of these security personnel for all their administrative and operational requirements. Your Committees further find that this transfer does not in any way impact on the existing ability or authority of HHSC to use private contractor security forces at other hospitals within their system.

Your Committees have amended this measure to reflect that the Department of Public Safety is the transferor, and not HHSC.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2979, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2979, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair