STAND. COM. REP. 709

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1181

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1181 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate $14,000,000 to fund employer contributions of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation (HHSC) to the Employees' Retirement System and the Public Employees Health Fund.

The Governor, HHSC, Health Care Association of Hawaii, and HGEA/AFSCME Local 152 AFL-CIO supported this bill.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriation amount to $7,524,000; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and clarity.

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. 1181, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1181, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair