STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2195

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2821

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2821 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MORTALITY REVIEW OF DEATHS OF PERSONS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL OR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to give the Department of Health the authority to conduct a comprehensive mortality review of persons with developmental or intellectual disabilities and to allow for information relevant to the review to be obtained by the Department and participants in the mortality review.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, the Consumer Family and Youth Alliance, and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that mortality reviews of persons with developmental or intellectual disabilities will assist the State's efforts to care for individuals with developmental or intellectual disabilities by reducing the incidence of preventable deaths and identifying and addressing quality of care concerns.  Your Committee also requests the Department of Health to timely notify your Committee on Health of the publication of relevant reports, including the Child Death Review, upon publication of those reports.

     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. 2821 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair