STAND. COM. REP. NO. 903
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2005
RE: H.B. No. 516
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2005
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 516, H.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMERGENCY HEALTH POWERS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to enhance the Department of Health's (DOH) emergency response capabilities by:
(1) Allowing DOH to maintain an emergency response stockpile to prepare for or respond to a CBRNE (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosives) event (the use of CBRNE to kill or sicken people, animals, or plants); and
(2) Exempting DOH from certain laws and rules relating to the dispensing, labeling, prescribing, or storage of the emergency response stockpile in preparing for or responding to a CBRNE event.
DOH, Department of Defense, and Healthcare Association of Hawaii testified in support of this measure.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 516, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Chair |
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