Bill Text: HI SB121 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Kula Hospital Medical Clinic; Malama I Ke Ola Health Center; Hawaii Health Systems Corporation; Lease
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB121 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-SB121-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 46
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 121
S.D. 1
Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui
President of the Senate
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2011
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 121 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to lease Kula Hospital's medical clinic, and any equipment, furnishings, and fixtures therein, to the Community Clinic of Maui, Inc., doing business as Malama I Ke Ola Health Center in order to continue to provide critical health services to homeless, poor, and underserved individuals on the island of Maui.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Maui Memorial Medical Center and Malama I Ke Ola Health Center.
Your Committee finds that it would be beneficial to the residents of Maui to allow Malama I Ke Ola Health Center to operate a federally qualified health center on the Kula Hospital medical clinic premises in order to meet the increasing community demand for comprehensive health services. According to testimony submitted by Maui Memorial Medical Center, Kula Hospital, and other hospitals in the region need equipment and furnishings for their own operations, so these hospitals may not want to lease all furnishings. Rather, it would be beneficial to Kula Hospital to agree upon a list of equipment and furnishings that will be included in the lease between Hawaii Health Systems Corporation and Malama I Ke Ola Health Center.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Adding language requiring the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation and Malama I Ke Ola Health Center to execute an equipment list detailing all of the equipment, furnishings, and fixtures to be leased, as agreed upon between Malama I Ke Ola Health Center and Kula Hospital; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and consistency.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 121, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 121, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,
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____________________________ JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair |
