Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 218, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to assist emergency medical technicians who do not have access to a training stipend program to advance in their careers by enrolling in a state-qualified mobile intensive care technician training program.

Specifically, this bill appropriates $350,000 to the Department of Health to establish an emergency medical technician training stipend program to remedy the shortage of mobile intensive care technicians/paramedics in Hawaii and to assist, through a state-qualified mobile intensive care technician program, ten students per year who are public or private paramedics and who currently do not have access to a training stipend program.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 218, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 218, S.D. 3.