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. 770
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 1306
S.D. 2
Honorable Donna Mercado Kim
President of the Senate
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1306, S.D. 1, 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 written comments in support of this measure from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, Maui Memorial Medical Center, Hilo Medical Center, and three individuals.
Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the Hawaii State AFL-CIO, Hawaii Government Employees Association, ILWU Local 142, and fifteen individuals.
Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance and The Queens Health Systems.
Your Committee finds that it is necessary for the State to take affirmative measures to improve the quality, efficiency, and availability of health care services in Hawaii. Your Committee also finds that, in order to address financial challenges, an increasing number of public hospitals across the nation have converted to non-public status. Your Committee further finds that 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 will likely improve the quality of health care services and operational efficiencies of health facilities in the communities they serve, and, over time, reduce their required level of support from the State.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Providing that, with regard to a transition to non-public status, the retention of liabilities by the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation or the State, accrued benefits status of employees, and any change in collective bargaining shall only occur upon approval of a concurrent resolution by both houses of the Legislature, the regional system board, and any boards in whose region or regions the health facility assets are located;
(2) Deleting the provision granting a new entity the right to incur revenue bond debt to finance capital expenditures; and
(3) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of consistency, clarity, and style.
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 S.B. No. 1306, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1306, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair |