STAND. COM. REP. NO.  794

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 889

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 889, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure that Hawaii is consistent with federal agency efforts to control healthcare- associated infections by:

     (1)  Requiring healthcare facilities in the State that are              certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid             Services to report healthcare-associated infections to        the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's                  National Healthcare Safety Network (Network);

     (2)  Authorizing the Department of Health (DOH) to adopt            rules to require healthcare-associated infections              that are multi-drug resistant to be reported to DOH            through the Network;

     (3)  Beginning June 30, 2013, requiring DOH to prepare an               annual public report on information pertaining to              healthcare-associated infections in the State for the              previous calendar year; and

(4)  Requiring DOH to submit a report on healthcare-associated infection reporting to the Legislature prior to the convening of the 2012 Regular Session.

     DOH, the Healthcare Association of Hawaii, and the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology-Hawai‘i Chapter testified in support of this bill.

     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. 889, 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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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair