STAND. COM. REP. NO.  210

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1373

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1373 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure health care access for all residents by appropriating funds to provide direct health care services to uninsured residents through nonprofit, community-based health care providers.

 

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Community Clinic of Maui, The League of Women Voters of Hawaii, Kalihi-Palama Health Center, Hawaii Primary Care Association, Papa Ola Lokahi, Waimanalo Health Center, Hoola Lahui Hawaii, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Health opposed this measure. 

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1373, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1373, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair