STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3015

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2521
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Education and Technology and Health and
Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2521 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOL HEALTH REQUIREMENTS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify the school health
requirements.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this
measure from the Department of Health (DOH), Department of
Education (DOE), and Hawaii Nurses' Association.

     This measure:

     (1)  Changes proof of receiving the required immunizations
          from a certification to a documentation;

     (2)  Changes proof of receiving the required physical
          examination from certification to report;

     (3)  Changes the DOE's forms for immunization and physical
          examination from health certificate to student's health
          record;

     (4)  Deletes the provision regarding the procedures for
          acceptance by a school official of immunization
          records;


 
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     (5)  Requires DOE to adopt rules for physical examination
          requirements; and

     (6)  Requires the DOE to establish rule standards for
          documentation and compliance with school health
          requirements.

     This measure would update DOE health requirements concerning
immunizations and physical examinations.  According to the DOH,
current law unnecessarily inconveniences parents and physicians
because of a lack of uniformity and efficiency.  This measure
would also have the effect of allowing electronic filing of
school health reports by physicians.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Adding a provision requiring the DOE rather than the
          DOH to be responsible for occupational and physical
          therapy;

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020; and

     (3)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive change for preferred
          drafting style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Education and Technology and Health and Human
Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in
accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2521, as amended
herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form
attached hereto as H.B. No. 2521, S.D. 1, and be referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Education and
                                   Technology and Health and
                                   Human Services,



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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair        DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 
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