STAND. COM. REP. NO.  344

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 851

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 851 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to support the emergency medical service needs of the Puna community by appropriating funds to establish an advanced life support ambulance based in Puna on the island of Hawaii, including acquisition of a vehicle and equipment and personnel costs for state-certified emergency medical services personnel.  

 

     The Council Member of District 4, County of Hawaii; Hawaii Fire Department; Hawaii Fire Fighters Association; United Public Workers; and an individual supported this measure.  The Department of Health commented on this measure.

 

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

 

 Should this measure be deliberated further in the legislative process, your Committee respectfully requests that the Committee on Finance consider specifying that the advanced life support ambulance be used to support daily peak hours.  

 


     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. 851, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 851, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair