STAND. COM. REP. NO.  372

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 1482

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1482 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a stroke system of care and to establish requirements for measuring, reporting, monitoring, and enforcing the stroke system of care in the State.

The Queen's Medical Center, American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, Hawaii Pacific Health, and Healthcare Association of Hawaii testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Health and American Osteopathic Association provided comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting the language that specifies that the Department of Health shall submit a report to the Governor and Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of each regular session;

     (2)  Deleting language that allows the Department of Health to enforce and penalize any person who has violated or is violating provisions of this measure;

     (3)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

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

     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 H.B. No. 1482, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1482, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

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

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair