Bill Text: HI HB879 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Hospital Sustainability Program; Special Fund; Appropriation ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-25 - Act 141, 6/21/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1244). [HB879 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB879-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  160

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 879

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 879 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HOSPITAL SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to continue the Hospital Sustainability Program established by Act 217, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, by:

 

(1)  Extending its repeal date to 2014;

 

(2)  Updating the referral dates in the statute; and

 

(3)  Appropriating $46,000,000 out of the Hospital Sustainability Program Special Fund for fiscal year 2013-2014.

 

     The Department of Human Services, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, The Queen's Health Systems, and Healthcare Association of Hawaii testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 879, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 879, 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,

 

 

____________________________ MELE CARROLL, Chair		____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair