STAND. COM. REP. NO.  458

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 1063

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1063 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to assist the City and County of Honolulu Emergency Medical Services Division with expanding emergency medical services and ambulance services in the Moanalua, Aliamanu, Salt Lake, and Foster Village communities by appropriating funds to operate an additional emergency medical service unit.

The Honolulu Emergency Services Department, Emergency Medical Service Division, and an individual supported this measure.  The Department of Health commented on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

     Should this measure be deliberated further in the legislative process, your Committee respectfully requests that the Committee on Finance consider specifying that the emergency medical service unit be used to support daily peak hours.

     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. 1063, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1063, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair