STAND. COM. REP. NO.  871

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1063

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1063, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to assist the City and County of Honolulu Emergency Medical Services Division with expanding emergency medical services and ambulance services in the Moanalua, Aliamanu, Salt Lake, and Foster Village communities by appropriating funds to operate an additional emergency medical service unit.

 

     The Honolulu Emergency Services Department, Emergency Medical Service Division; United Public Workers, AFSCME Local 646, AFL-CIO; American Medical Response; and a few individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Health provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the appropriation amount from $2,374,237.98 to an unspecified amount to facilitate further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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 H.B. No. 1063, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1063, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair