STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2069

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2370
                                        




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was
referred S.B. No. 2370 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR EMERGENCY
     AMBULANCE SERVICE ON THE ISLAND OF HAWAII,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for
emergency ambulance service on the Island of Hawaii.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Health, Bay Clinic, Inc., and 169 private
individuals.

     Your Committee finds that unacceptably long and potentially
life-threatening delays in emergency ambulance service have
occurred in the Hawaiian Ocean View Estates area of the Big
Island.  Delays can last up to two hours and occur when the Kau
ambulance in Naalehu is already on call.  Delays in the provision
of appropriate emergency medical care because of geography are
inhumane and unfair.  This measure alleviates this unacceptable
situation by appropriating funds to provide emergency advanced
life support ambulance service to the residents of Hawaiian Ocean
View Estates on the island of Hawaii.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Health and Human Services that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose

 
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of S.B. No. 2370 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Health and Human
                                   Services,



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                                   SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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