STAND. COM. REP. NO.  13-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1922

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health & Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1922 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to include quality assurance committees established by individual long-term care facilities, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, home care agencies, and hospices, quality assurance committees jointly established by multiple providers, and state agencies that serve the same purpose in civil liability protections that apply to quality assurance committees established by other healthcare and health insurance providers.

 

     The Community Action Network and Community First supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health & Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1922, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1922, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health & Human Services,

 

 

 

 

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair