Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1550, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to permit teachers and other employees of the Department of Education to administer glucagon to students with diabetes in emergency situations.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Department of Education, the Department of Health, the Consumer Lawyers of Hawaii, Kaiser Permanente, the American Diabetes Association, the Hawaii Association of Diabetes Educators, Tripler Army Medical Center Children With Diabetes Support Group, and fifteen individuals. The Hawaii State Teachers Association testified in opposition to the measure.

This measure authorizes the emergency administration of glucagon to students with diabetes by Department of Education employees and agents who volunteer to do so, provided that certain requirements relating to parental consent and obtaining written certification from a student's doctor are satisfied. Your Committee finds that this measure is designed to balance liability concerns with the need to provide necessary and immediate medical assistance to Hawaii's public school students who are diabetic.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1550, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.