STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2390

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2116
                                        




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services and
Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was
referred S.B. No. 2116 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR FUNDING A
     SECOND AMBULANCE TO SERVICE THE WAIANAE COAST,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for
funding a second ambulance to serve the Waianae Coast.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this
measure from the Department of Health (DOH), Honolulu Emergency
Services Department, State Health Planning and Development
Agency, West Oahu Subarea Health Planning Council, and Estate of
James Campbell.

     Your Committees find that the Waianae Coast in Leeward Oahu
has only one ambulance which is insufficient to serve the
emergency medical needs of Waianae, Nanakuli, and Maile.
According to testimony of the DOH, Waianae is one of several
areas on Oahu where backup response time standards may be
exceeded.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Health and Human Services and Transportation and
Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your
Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B.

 
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No. 2116 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be
referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Health and Human
                                   Services and Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair                SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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