STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1421-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 851
                                     S.D. 2
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

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

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CARE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill, as received by your Committee, is
to encourage the use of hospice care and to ensure consistent,
high-quality hospice care by:

     (1)  Authorizing the Department of Health (DOH) to license
          hospice service agencies; and

     (2)  Permitting hospice homes in residential areas for
          purposes of zoning.

     Your Committee heard this measure during the 1999 Regular
Session and recommended that it be deferred.  Subsequently, this
measure was carried over to the 2000 Regular Session.

     Your Committee circulated a proposed H.D. 2 version of this
bill for purposes of discussion and public hearing.  The purpose
of the proposed H.D. 2 version is to increase the number of
licensed nurses in the State by reestablishing the Operation
Nightingale Program (Program) in DOH.  The Program will offer
review and training courses to enable graduates of nursing
schools to pass the written examination required by the State
Board of Nursing.

 
 
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     The Hawaii Nurses' Association, the Filipino Nurses
Association, and an individual testified in support of the
proposed draft.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
measure by deleting its substance and incorporating the
amendments made in the proposed H.D. 2 version.  Additional
technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for purposes
of clarity 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.
851, 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. 851,
S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair