STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2434

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2600

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2600, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTHCARE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to establish licensure requirements for the practice of respiratory care.

 

     Your Committee received comments in support of the measure from the Hawaii Medical Association, the Hawaii Society for Respiratory Care, the Queen's Medical Center, and six individuals.  Comments in opposition were submitted by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.  The written comments may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will protect patients from medical errors by ensuring that respiratory therapists practicing in the State meet certain minimum standards.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on this measure; and

 

     (2)  Making numerous technical amendments, such as correcting a typographical error in a statutory cross-reference.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2600, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2600, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair