STAND. COM. REP. NO. 949-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 1827

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1827, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTHCARE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to:

(1) Support the Public High School Health Care Workforce Certificate Program;

(2) Renovate and equip certain public high school classrooms to be used for health care training; and

(3) Support the Glidepath Program for certified nurse aides.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education; State Council on Developmental Disabilities; Hawai‘i State Center for Nursing; Hawai‘i Primary Care Association; Hawai‘i Pacific Health; Ohana Pacific Health/Hale Makua Health Services; Hawaii State Teachers Association; Kaiser Permanente Hawai‘i; Hawai‘i - American Nurses Association; Healthcare Association of Hawaii; Hawaii Association of Health Plans; AlohaCare; and numerous individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriations to unspecified amounts.

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. 1827, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1827, H.D. 2.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair