Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2948, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to establish the Public Health Nursing Services Program (Program) within the Department of Health (DOH) and set forth the roles and functions of the Program in its delivery of direct clinical nursing services.

DOH, the Hawaii Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Child Welfare Services State Advisory Council, HGEA, Easter Seals, Hawaii Early Intervention Coordinating Council, East Kauai Lions Club, and numerous concerned individuals testified in support of this bill. The Hawaii Government Employees Association and Maui Memorial Medical Center supported the intent of this measure.

Your Committee finds that public health nurses provide communities with health services that include:

Statutorily establishing this program will ensure that these services will be continued.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2948, S.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.