STAND. COM. REP. NO.  517

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 1109

      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. 1109 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO A BEHAVIOR SUPPORT REVIEW COMMITTEE FOR PERSONS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL OR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a behavioral support review process for multi-disciplinary reviews of restraints or seclusion of persons with developmental or intellectual disabilities and to exempt those who participate in the reviews from liability for authorized information disclosures.  

The State Council on Developmental Disabilities and Family Voices of Hawaii provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Health provided testimony in support of this measure and proposed amendments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Broadening the scope of providers required to disclose information to include all providers of supports;

(2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

(3)  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. 1109, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1109, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

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

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair