STAND. COM. REP. NO. 625

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1004

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1004 entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow licensed health care providers of children under the Child Protective Services (CPS) system to share medical information with each other.

The Department of Human Services supported this measure.

Your Committees find that this provision would help ensure that children within the CPS system receive a coordinated and seamless continuum of health services from their health care providers.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1) Clarifying that sharing information must be in accordance with federal statutes and regulations;

(2) Assuring that the identity of the health care provider is verified;

(3) Ensuring that a copy of the record is included in the child's case record; and

(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

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. 1004, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1004, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

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

 

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ALEX M. SONSON, Chair

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DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair