STAND. COM. REP. NO. 564-06
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2006
RE: H.B. No. 2126
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2126 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to improve emergency service to the Leeward area by appropriating $600,000 for a 24-hour, 7-days-a-week, rapid response emergency medical services unit for the Mililani/Mililani Mauka area.
The Emergency Services Department of the City and County of Honolulu, Mililani Neighborhood Board No. 25, and several concerned individuals supported this bill.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Extending the area of coverage to include Lower Mililani, Waipio Gentry, Waikele, Crestview, East Waipahu, Waiawa, and the Pearl City industrial area;
(2) Changing the emergency service to a 16-hour-a-day, 7-days-a-week advanced life support emergency medical services ambulance unit;
(3) Changing the appropriation amount to $1 to encourage further discussion; and
(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.
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 H.B. No. 2126, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2126, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,
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____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair |
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