STAND. COM. REP. NO.  558

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 363

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 363, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to improve access to emergency medical care and ambulance services in Ewa Beach by appropriating funds to demolish the Ewa Beach fire station and to construct an energy-efficient and environmentally-sustainable emergency medical services facility at the same location.

 

     The Department of Health, United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, and Queen's Health Systems testified in support of the measure.

 

     Your Committee respectfully requests the Committee on Finance, should it decide to have a hearing on this bill, to consider whether the expending agency for the funds appropriated in this measure should be the Department of Health or the City and County of Honolulu.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the appropriation amount;

 

     (2)  Amending its effective date to July 1, 2050, 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 Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 363, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 363, H.D. 2.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair