STAND. COM. REP. NO. 869

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 863

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 863 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide the Hawaii Health Authority an additional year to submit to the Legislature a comprehensive health plan for all individuals in the State. 

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Hawaii Medical Association, Hawaii Family Support Institute, and four individuals.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from Hawaii Medical Service Association.

 

     Your Committee finds that additional time is needed for the Hawaii Health Authority to adequately prepare its comprehensive health plan for all individuals in the State and that this measure allows the Authority to do so.

 

     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. 863, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 


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

 

 

 

____________________________

JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair