STAND. COM. REP. 1111

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 402

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Higher Education and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 402, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAL EDUCATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to establish the Graduate Medical Education Program to be administered by a Medical Education Council (Council) in cooperation with the Department of Health (DOH) to coordinate and govern graduate medical education in the State.

The University of Hawaii, Queen's Medical Center, Hawaii Pacific Health, and Wahiawa General Hospital submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Board of Medical Examiners supported the intent of the bill and proposed amendments. The Department of the Attorney General and Compassion in Dying of Hawaii submitted comments.

Your Committees find that this bill will help to coordinate and improve graduate medical education in Hawaii. The Council will bring together Hawaii's most critical medical education stakeholders to use their expertise in managing the education of Hawaii's invaluable medical professionals.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1) Adding the Director of the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii and an additional individual representing the health professions community to the membership of the Council;

(2) Placing the new statutory material in chapter 304, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) rather than in chapter 453, HRS; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style and clarity.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Higher Education and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 402, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 402, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Higher Education and Health,

 

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DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair

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K. MARK TAKAI, Chair