STAND. COM. REP. NO.  512-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1777

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1777, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to provide safeguards for student health by:

 

     (1)  Authorizing Department of Education employees and agents with specified training to volunteer to administer epinephrine in an emergency situation to a student with anaphylaxis;

 

     (2)  Requiring training in the emergency administration of glucagon or epinephrine to students to be conducted by the Department of Health, rather than a qualified health care professional; and

 

     (3)  Making an appropriation for instruction, training, and related expenses.

 

     The Department of Education, Mylan Inc., and Walgreen Co. supported this measure.  The Hawaii Association for Justice and two individuals opposed this measure.  The Department of Health commented on this measure.

 


     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying the authority of an advanced practice registered nurse to certify medical need or orders to permit self-administration or administration of emergency treatment;

 

     (2)  Restoring the requirement that training in the emergency administration of glucagon or epinephrine to students be conducted by a qualified health care professional and making conforming amendments;

 

     (3)  Allowing the Department of Education to make arrangements to receive injectable epinephrine supplies from manufacturers and suppliers;

 

     (4)  Changing the effective date of this measure to July 1, 2050; and

 

     (5)  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 Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1777, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1777, H.D. 2.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair