STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1163-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 2235

      S.D. 2

      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 Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2235, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to improve the health of Hawaii's students by expanding the physical examination for public school students to include completion of a physical examination within 12 months before the date of attending seventh grade in addition to the examination required before attending school for the first time.  

The Department of Health, Hawai‘i Pacific Health, Hale Kipa, Hawaii Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Hawaii Primary Care Association, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, and a few individuals supported this measure.  A concerned individual opposed this measure.  The Department of Education commented on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by requiring and appropriating funds for:

     (1)  The Board of Education to establish a pilot program in one complex area, under which no child may attend seventh grade without presenting to the school, documentation of a physical examination performed within six months of the first date of attending school; and

     (2)  The Department of Health to establish, or enter into partnerships or agreements to administer, a school-based dental sealant program in a high-need demonstration school to provide sealants to high-risk students with susceptible permanent molar teeth; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for 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 S.B. No. 2235, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2235, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

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

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair