Bill Text: HI SB664 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Appropriation; Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Primary Care Training Program ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to HLT, FIN, referral sheet 30 [SB664 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB664-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 55

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 664

       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. 664 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide critical funding for the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation primary care training program to alleviate the shortage of primary care providers in the State.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the County of Hawaii Office of the Mayor, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, University of Hawaii School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene, Hilo Medical Center, The Queen's Health Systems, Hilo Medical Center Foundation, Japanese Chamber of Commerce, North Hawaii Community Hospital, Hawaii Island Healthcare Alliance, and ten individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that the State is facing a severe shortage of healthcare providers.  Your Committee further finds that the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation primary care training program is an effective way to reduce the impact of the shortage of primary care providers and improve access to healthcare throughout the State.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the references to the appropriation as a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and

 

     (2)  Changing the expending agency to the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.

 

     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. 664, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 664, 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,

 

		____________________________ JOSH GREEN, Chair