STAND. COM. REP. NO. 494

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1329

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1329 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE REVIEW OF HOSPITAL ACQUISITIONS BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify that the deadline for the Attorney General to review and either approve or disapprove an application for the acquisition of a hospital is ninety days after the submission of a complete application.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Attorney General.

 

     Your Committee finds that section 323D-75(c), Hawaii Revised Statutes, currently requires that the Attorney General to decide to either approve or disapprove an application for the acquisition of a hospital within ninety days of receiving the application.  If the Attorney General does not decide within ninety days, the application is deemed approved.  This creates a problem when the Attorney General receives an incomplete application.  This measure will clarify that the Attorney General has ninety days to decide whether to approve or disapprove an application after receiving a complete application.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1329 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair