Bill Text: HI SB1306 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Hawaii Health Systems Corporation; Health Care; Non-Public Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to HLT/LAB, CPC, FIN, referral sheet 30 [SB1306 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1306-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 396
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 1306
S.D. 1
Honorable Donna Mercado Kim
President of the Senate
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1306 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to permit the regional systems of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation and their health facilities to transition to non-public status.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Maui Region Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, Banner Health, and numerous individuals. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO and numerous individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance and Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.
Your Committee finds that the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation continues to face financial challenges, including increased operating and capital improvement costs, budget shortfalls, budgetary restrictions, and declining government and third-party subsidies. Your Committee further finds that declining subsidies and deteriorating infrastructure will inevitably affect quality of care. These challenges require innovative alternatives, including exploration of a public-private partnership and a transition into a non-public entity, that can help improve and enhance the delivery of health care throughout the State. This measure therefore advances the State's commitment to providing high quality health care by allowing the regional systems of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation and their health facilities to transition to non-public status.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Specifying that a transition to non-public status shall only occur upon approval by:
(A) An affirmative vote of both houses of the Legislature, through concurrent resolution;
(B) The regional system board; and
(C) Boards in whose region or regions the health facility assets are located;
(2) Revising language that specified that the employees of the new entity, unless the new entity was a municipal facility, and the private entity shall be exempt from chapters 76, 87A, 88, and 89, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and in no event shall the employees of the new entity or the private entity be considered as employees of the State;
(3) Inserting an effective date of January 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and
(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the 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. 1306, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1306, 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, Chair |
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