STAND. COM. REP. NO. 425-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 3017
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No.
3017 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR MOLOKAI
     GENERAL HOSPITAL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate $850,000 for
fiscal year 2000-2001 for Molokai General Hospital so that it may
continue current levels of service.

     The Molokai General Hospital, the Maui County Council, the
Hawaii State Primary Care Association, the Queen's Health
Systems, Papa Ola Lokahi, Na Pu'uwai Native Hawaiian Health Care
System, the Kilohana Elementary School, the Office of Hawaiian
Affairs, and a member of the Maui County Council testified in
support of this bill.

     Your Committee finds that this appropriation will enable the
hospital to provide current levels of service to Molokai
residents who, as a community, experience the highest morbidity
rates for diabetes, cancer, heart disease, kidney disease, and
obesity in the state.  Molokai General Hospital is the only
hospital on the island. 

     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 H.B. No.

 
 
 
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3017 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred
to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Health,



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                                   ALEXANDER C. SANTIAGO, Chair