STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1394

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.R. No. 26

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.R. No. 26 entitled:

 

"SENATE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO REPORT ON CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION INSTRUCTION BEING OFFERED THROUGHOUT STATE DEPARTMENTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Department of Health to report on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) instruction being offered throughout state departments.

 

     Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Health.

 

     Your Committee finds that out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is one of the leading causes of death in the State.  Cities that have increased CPR training have seen cardiac arrest survival rates reach up to sixty percent.  Your Committee finds that CPR training can be completed in a single thirty-minute session.  Your Committee acknowledges the testimony of the Department of Health, which explained that it was not aware of whether state departments offer CPR training.

 


     Therefore, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Requesting the Department of Health to survey other state departments as to whether those departments offer CPR training;

 

     (2)  Amending its title in accordance with its amended purpose; and

 

     (3)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 26, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 26, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

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JARRETT KEOHOKALOLE, Chair