STAND. COM. REP. NO.  887-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2913

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2913 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO KIDNEY DISEASE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to protect the health and well being of chronic kidney patients and patients with end-stage renal disease living in rural areas by appropriating funds for the development and implementation of the modified home care and community health demonstration project to provide necessary treatments for these patients.

 

     The National Kidney Foundation of Hawaii, St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii, and Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs testified in support of this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing the appropriation amount for the development and implementation of the modified home care and community health demonstration project to an unspecified amount;

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for 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 H.B. No. 2913, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2913, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair