STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2484

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2348

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2348, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to help increase the likelihood of successful health outcomes for individuals in need of emergency medical care by appropriating funds to establish two life support ambulances, to be based in the Puna and Makalei areas on the island of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that providing these additional ambulances would help reduce death and disability among residents and visitors to the island of Hawaii by facilitating timely responses to emergencies and by reducing the potential for paramedic fatigue that can result in dangerous errors.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

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

 

     (2)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 2348, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2348, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair