HB558 HD1 HSCR242-04

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 242-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 558

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 558 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to effectuate its title.

H.B. No. 558 was introduced as a short-form bill, which is sometimes referred to as a "vehicle" bill primarily used to introduce a bill containing only a general idea as to the purpose of the bill without specific details in the long form.

Your Committee has amended the bill to provide the actual substance of the bill so that a public hearing may be properly held on its substantive contents.

As amended, the bill appropriates general funds for the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to conduct a feasibility study of establishing Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly ("PACE") programs in the rural communities of the State.

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 action to report out H.B. No. 558, as amended herein, and recommends that it be recommitted to the Committee on Health, for the purpose of holding a public hearing thereon, in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 558, H.D. 1.

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

 

		____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair