STAND

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 242-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: H.B. No. 3123

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 3123 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide funding for a study to conduct structural analysis by registered professional engineers of each hospital and nursing home facility, rating each facility based on its ability to survive the likely effects of category I, II, III, IV, and V hurricanes.

The Department of Defense, Structural Engineers Association of Hawaii, and Healthcare Association of Hawaii supported this bill. The Department of Health supported the intent of this measure.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the appropriation to $1 to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 3123, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 3123, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services,

 

____________________________ ALEX M. SONSON, Chair		____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair