STAND. COM. REP. NO. 530-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 2058

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, Human Services, & Homelessness, to which was referred H.B. No. 2058 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE WAIANAE COAST COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTER EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to assist the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center in the provision of emergency department and disaster-related response services to residents of the Waianae coast.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, Hawaii Primary Care Association, and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance, Department of Health, and Department of the Attorney General.

Your Committee finds that the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center is the primary medical provider on the Waianae coast and provides a variety of services to the community, including twenty-four hours a day, year-round emergency services. Your Committee further finds that a dependable, multi-year financial commitment by the State to support emergency medical services at the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center is the most effective way to ensure that residents throughout the Waianae coast receive appropriate emergency medical care and that the community is served during a disaster.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting the preamble, other than the narrow purpose statement of this measure;

(2) Changing the appropriation to a grant under Chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and the amount of the grant to an unspecified amount;

(3) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2060, to encourage further discussion; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health, Human Services, & Homelessness that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2058, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2058, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health, Human Services, & Homelessness,

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair