STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2796

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3128

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3128, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ACT 212, SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII 2021,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to facilitate the efficient use of state resources.

Specifically, this measure:

(1) Repeals the requirement to transfer the Oahu Regional Health Care System from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to the Department of Health; and

(2) Requires the Oahu Regional Health Care System to enter into an agreement with the Department of Health regarding the Oahu Regional Health Care System providing care for low acuity patients in the Department of Health's custody by the end of 2024.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Health, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, and Oahu Region of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.

Your Committee finds that a report submitted by the Department of Health to the Legislature at the end of 2021 detailed the complexity and high costs of transferring the Oahu Regional Health Care System from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to the Department of Health. Your Committee further finds that this measure will avoid those complexities and costs while still achieving the intended goals of the transfer envisioned by Act 212, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Amending section 323F-7.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to remove certain statutory provisions added by Act 212, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021;

(2) Repealing part XLVI of Chapter 321, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which was enacted by Act 212, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021;

(3) Repealing certain other portions of Act 212, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, that would have facilitated the transfer of the Oahu Regional Health Care System to the Department of Health;

(4) Correcting the text of Act 212, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, as amended by Act 150, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to reflect the printed version of the Session Laws of Hawaii; and

(5) Making a technical nonsubstantive amendment for the purpose of consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3128, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3128, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair