STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1216-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.C.R. No. 155
                                     H.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.C.R. No.
155 entitled: 

     "HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING A PLAN TO IMPROVE
     EMERGENCY SERVICES IN THE HANA, MAUI, COMMUNITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to request a
plan to improve emergency services in the Hana, Maui, community.

     The Department of Health offered comments on this bill.

     Your Committee finds that currently, residents and tourists
in Hana, Maui must sometimes wait as long as eight hours for
medical transport to the local hospital.  Furthermore, after-hour
emergency personnel are lacking and increased physician coverage
is needed when people need more services than paramedics can
provide.  Developing a plan to improve emergency services is the
first step in rectifying these shortcomings.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting
provisions convening a working group to develop the plan.  Other
technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for
consistency and clarity.

     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 H.C.R. No. 155,
as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the
Committee on Finance, in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No.
155, H.D. 1.

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



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                                   ALEXANDER C. SANTIAGO, Chair