Bill Text: HI HB1483 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Task Force; HHSC Transition to Public-private Partnership Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2013-04-26 - Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-26-13 4:30PM in conference room 229. [HB1483 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB1483-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  560

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1483

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 1483, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to establish a task force to study the feasibility and merits of allowing the operations of one or more regional systems of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, or one or more of its individual health facilities, to transition to non-public status.

 

     Maui Memorial Medical Center, Maui Regional Board, and numerous individuals testified in support of this measure.  Numerous individuals testified in opposition to this measure.  Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, Hawaii State AFL-CIO, and an individual provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Replacing all references to "non-public status" to "public-private partnership status";

 

     (2)  Requiring the task force to examine whether a securitization mechanism is necessary to protect the State and to review the fiscal impact of contracting solely with out-of-state persons for goods, services, and infrastructure;

 

     (3)  Requiring the task force to hold public meetings with health care personnel and other employees of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to discuss alternative cost reductions before reductions in service are made;

 

     (4)  Requiring the task force to include any actions being taken to incorporate the alternative cost reductions in its report to the Legislature; and

 

     (5)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2112, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1483, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1483, H.D. 2.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

 

 

		____________________________ ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair