STAND. COM. REP. NO. 354

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1300

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1300 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to amend the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Board composition to add an at-large member appointed by the Governor, give voting rights to the ex-officio Director of Health member, and replace the Regional Chief Executive Officer ex-officio voting members with additional community members from the respective regional system boards.  The intent of this measure is to affirm the State's commitment to provide quality health care for the people of the State by amending the Hawaii Health System Corporation's board structure and improving the accountability and sustainability of the health system.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, Oahu Region and the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Corporate Board of Directors. 

 

Your Committee expressed concerns over the removal of the Regional Chief Executive Officers from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Corporate Board of Directors.  Your Committee finds that continued inclusion of the Regional Chief Executive Officers on the Board of Directors will help the Board of Directors continue to build on the progress made by the regional systems to coordinate service delivery and improve the health of the island communities.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Increasing the number of members of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Corporate Board of Directors to eighteen;

 

     (2)  Restoring the five Regional Chief Executive Officers as ex-officio, voting members of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Corporate Board of Directors in addition to the increased number of community members under this measure; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     Your Committee respectfully requests that, if your Committee on Ways and Means should hear this measure, that your Committee on Ways and Means consider adding additional language to this measure that would clarify that only three members shall represent Maui County.

 

     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. 1300, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1300, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

 

 

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JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair