STAND. COM. REP. NO.  782-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2304

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 2304, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE NEUROTRAUMA ADVISORY BOARD,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to enable the Neurotrauma Advisory Board to function more efficiently and effectively by, among other things:

     (1)  Decreasing the minimum number of Board members from 21 to at least 11 to facilitate attaining quorum, while still maintaining representation from all advocacy and disability groups currently represented;

     (2)  Establishing quorum requirements for the Board; and

     (3)  Authorizing the Director of Health to appoint to the Board, up to three state and county representatives whose work relates to neurotrauma.

The Department of Health and American Heart Association testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Specifying that the Board shall consist of exactly 11 members; and

     (2)  Specifying that the Director of Health appoint one representative for persons who have suffered a stroke.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2304, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2304, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair