STAND. COM. REP. NO. 740

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1254

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1254 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to expand emergency medical services and ambulance services in the Ewa Beach community.

 

     Your Committee finds that the closure of the Hawaii Medical Center hospitals reduced access to emergency medical care for the residents of the City and County of Honolulu, especially in the Ewa Beach area.  Accordingly, your Committee finds that this measure will ensure that the residents of the Ewa Beach community have available the necessary access to emergency medical services and ambulance services.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount; and

 

(2)  Changing the effective to July 1, 2050, to promote further discussion on the measure.

 

     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 S.B. No. 1254, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1254, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair