STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2253

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2100

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2100 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ASSAULT ON MEDICAL SERVICES PROVIDERS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the offense of assault in the second degree to include intentionally or knowingly causing bodily injury to certain medical services providers.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Healthcare Association of Hawaii; Pali Momi Medical Center; American Organization of Nurse Executives, Hawaii Chapter; The Queen's Health Systems; and the Hawaii Chapter, American Physical Therapy Association.

 

     Your Committee finds that a broader range of medical services providers deserve the same statutory protection provided under this measure to emergency medical services providers and that protecting the providers who deliver much-needed care and services is paramount to the well-being of the people of the State.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by including intentionally or knowingly causing bodily injury to medical services staff who provide services in a dentist's office, home care agency, home health agency, hospice, long-term care facility, or physician's office under the offense of assault in the second degree.

 

     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. 2100, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2100, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

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

 

 

 

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JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair