Bill Text: HI SB596 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Hawaii Health Corps

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-06-29 - (S) Act 187, 6/28/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1290). [SB596 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB596-Amended.html

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CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 100-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2012

 

RE:    S.B. No. 596

       S.D. 2

       H.D. 1

       C.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sirs:

 

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 596, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HAWAII HEALTH CORPS,"

 

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

 

     The purpose of this measure is to increase access by medically underserved resident populations to culturally appropriate primary health care services by appropriating funds to implement and sustain the rural interdisciplinary residency program at Hilo Medical Center.

 

     Your Committee on Conference finds that Hawaii faces a primary health care provider shortage.  The increasing costs of a medical education require physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners to seek out high-salary jobs in order to repay their student loans.  Unfortunately, rural areas are often unable to provide a competitive salary for such health care providers, resulting in the critical provider shortage that this measure seeks to address.

 

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Amending the purpose section;

 

     (2)  Inserting language to:

 

          (A)  Establish the Hawaii health corps program, Hawaii rural health care provider loan repayment program, and the Hawaii health corps revolving fund;

 

          (B)  Require the University of Hawaii at Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine and University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene to report to the Legislature on the status of the Hawaii health corps program; and

 

          (C)  Require the implementation of the Hawaii health corps program by June 30, 2013;

 

     (3)  Deleting the appropriation that would have been used to implement and sustain the rural interdisciplinary residency program at Hilo Medical Center; and

 

     (4)  Changing the effective date to upon approval.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 596, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 596, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

 

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

 

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Co-Chair		____________________________ JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair
____________________________ SCOTT NISHIMOTO, Co-Chair		____________________________ JILL TOKUDA, Co-Chair
____________________________ DEE MORIKAWA, Co-Chair		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Co-Chair