STAND. COM. REP. NO. 690-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1844
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
1844, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE
     DEVELOPMENT OF PROTOCOLS AND THE SPECIAL TRAINING OF
     PARAMEDICS IN THE TREATMENT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PATIENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to train emergency services
personnel to recognize domestic violence injuries by
appropriating funds for the statewide development of protocols
and special training of paramedics in the treatment of domestic
violence patients.

     The Department of Health, the Hawaii State Commission on the
Status of Women, and the Hawaii Catholic Conference testified in
support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing the amount of the appropriation to $1 to
          facilitate continued discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for 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.

 
 
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1844, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1844, H.D.
2.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair