STAND. COM. REP. NO.  746

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 962

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services & Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 962 entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate moneys for a grant to the St. Francis Healthcare Foundation to support the modified home care and community health demonstration project.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will help promote education, detection, prevention, and medical management, and treatment to patients with chronic kidney disease, particularly those with end-stage renal disease living in remote areas of the State.

 

     The Department of Health, National Kidney Foundation, St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii, Papa Ola Lokahi, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs submitted testimony in support of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services & Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 962 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services & Housing,

 

 

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MAILE SHIMABUKURO, Chair

 

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JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair