Bill Text: HI HB609 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Hawaii Health Systems Corporation; Hawaii Medical Center-East

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-10 - (S) Act 281, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1384). [HB609 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB609-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3342

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 609

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 609, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, 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 for the health care needs of the public by:

 

     (1)  Authorizing the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to bring the Hawaii Medical Center-East facility under its governance through formal affiliation or acquisition; and

 

     (2)  By providing funding for this purpose.

 

     Your Committee finds that a public-private partnership between the owners of the facility previously known as the Hawaii Medical Center-East and the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation will help to address the current need for skilled nursing and the future need for additional long-term care beds in Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Authorizing the assimilation of the Hawaii Medical Center-East into the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation by session law instead of codifying the provision in statute; and

 

     (2)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style, clarity, and consistency.

 

     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 H.B. No. 609, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 609, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair