STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2090

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: S.B. No. 759

S.D. 2

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 759, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Require the Office of Primary Care and Rural Health to:

(A) Oversee and support community efforts to address health and wellness needs in rural and underserved areas and develop plans that align with appropriate providers' goals and objectives; and

(B) Provide a one-time summary of community plans as part of the Primary Health Care Incentive Program annual report to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2024; and

(2) Appropriate funds for the development of community plans, including the establishment of one position.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Department of Health, Hawai‘i Island Community Health Center, Big Island One Stop Center for Micronesians, Community First Hawai‘i, COFA Alliance National Network, and one individual.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the number of permanent full-time equivalent program specialist IV positions to an unspecified number; and

(2) 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 Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 759, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 759, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair