CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 152

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2021

RE: H.B. No. 224

H.D. 1

S.D. 2

C.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

Sirs:

Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 224, H.D. 1, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE HEALTH PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY,"

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:

(1) Make the Department of Health alternatively responsible for the State Health Planning and Development Agency's duties;

(2) Require the State Health Planning and Development Agency or Department of Health to update the state health services and facilities plan every five years;

(3) Transfer monies in excess of $2,000,000 in the State Health Planning and Development Special Fund to the general fund at the end of each fiscal year;

(4) Impose an administrative penalty of an unspecified sum for each seven-day period during which a person violates or fails to act in compliance with an approved certificate of need granted by the State Health Planning and Development Agency;

(5) Exempt psychiatric services, special treatment facilities, and chronic renal dialysis services in Oahu regional government hospitals from the certificate of need requirements; and

(6) Appropriate monies from the State Health Planning and Development Special Fund to fund positions within the State Health Planning and Development Agency.

Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

(1) Reverting to the existing statutory language that establishes the State Health Planning and Development Agency as the administrator of the State Health Planning and Development Special Fund;

(2) Inserting a $5,000 administrative penalty;

(3) Removing special treatment facilities from the exemption from the certificate of need requirements;

(4) Exempting all chronic renal dialysis services from the certificate of need requirements, rather than only those in Oahu regional government hospitals;

(5) Removing all appropriations;

(6) Requiring the Department of Health to conduct a study and report to the Legislature on the efficacy of this measure;

(7) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2021;

(8) Inserting a sunset date of July 1, 2026; and

(9) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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 H.B. No. 224, H.D. 1, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 224, H.D. 1, S.D. 2, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

____________________________ JARRETT KEOHOKALOLE Chair	____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE Co-Chair
____________________________ GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN Co-Chair	____________________________ AARON LING JOHANSON Co-Chair
	____________________________ TY J.K. CULLEN Co-Chair