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 S.B. No. 2348, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to prepare and protect the people of Hawaii from a pandemic of a novel strain of influenza by appropriating $11,000,000 for the Department of Health (DOH) to acquire medications, mass clinic supplies; laboratory supplies and equipment, personal protective equipment, and a data management system for tracking cases and contacts.

The Governor, DOH, and Healthcare Association of Hawaii supported this bill. The U.S. Surgeon General provided comments.

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. 2348, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.