Bill Text: HI HB1373 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Health Care for the Uninsured
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB1373 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1373-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 210
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2009
RE: H.B. No. 1373
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2009
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1373 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to ensure health care access for all residents by appropriating funds to provide direct health care services to uninsured residents through nonprofit, community-based health care providers.
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Community Clinic of Maui, The League of Women Voters of Hawaii, Kalihi-Palama Health Center, Hawaii Primary Care Association, Papa Ola Lokahi, Waimanalo Health Center, Hoola Lahui Hawaii, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill. The Department of Health opposed this measure.
Your Committees have amended this bill by changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1373, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1373, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services,
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____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair |
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____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair |
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