STAND. COM. REP. NO. 981-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 1638

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1638, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A KONA HOSPITAL SITE ASSESSMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to conduct a site assessment to identify and evaluate viable locations for a new hospital site in North Kona on the island of Hawaii.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from one member of the Hawai‘i County Council and two individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance and Kona Community Hospital.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1638, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1638, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair