STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1213

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 889

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 2

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 889, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish health care-associated infection reporting requirements to ensure that Hawaii is consistent with the efforts of federal agencies to control health care-associated infections and to ensure that the Department of Health has access to health care-associated infection data reported by Hawaii's health care providers to the federal government.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will ensure that Hawaii's health care facilities will be in compliance with reporting requirements established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and the proposed reporting system will ensure that the health care-associated infections data for Hawaii is reported using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's approved definitions for health care-associated infections and in accordance with national standards and data from other states.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2051, to allow for further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 889, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 889, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair