STAND. COM. REP. NO. 750________

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1144
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
1144 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE TRAINING OF EMERGENCY
     MEDICAL SERVICES PERSONNEL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of
Health to review and approve the curricula and syllabi of
training courses in basic, intermediate, and advanced life
support offered to emergency medical services personnel.

     The Department of Health, the University of Hawaii, the
Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, and the Hawaii Nurses'
Association testified in support of this bill.  The Board of
Medical Examiners commented on this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical,
nonsubstantive changes for style, clarity, and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
1144, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1144, H.D. 1.


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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair