STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1838

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   S.B. No. 1282

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1282, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to address the critical shortage of mobile intensive care technicians and paramedics in Hawaii by establishing and appropriating funds for an Emergency Medical Technician Training Stipend Program to allow students to attend a state-qualified mobile intensive care technician training program.

     The Kauai Subarea Health Planning Council, American Medical Response, Maui County Paramedic Association, and numerous concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Health offered comments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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 S.B. No. 1282, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1282, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair