STAND. COM. REP. 2156

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 3156

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 3156 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for professional development and training for Hawaii's paramedics.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the University of Hawaii-Kapiolani Community College, United Public Workers (UPW), American Medical Response, and a paramedic.

Testimony was received from the Department of Health in support of the intent of this measure only.

Your Committee finds that, currently, emergency medical technicians on Maui and Kauai must relocate to Oahu for eighteen months in order to attend paramedic training classes, thus deterring their efforts for advanced MICT certification.

Your Committee also finds that this is a very important measure to help keep our emergency medical services topnotch. Kapiolani Community College is in the process of developing a telecommunications infrastructure to support quality distance education, and will assume subsequent expenses after this initial start up.

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. 3156 and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair