STAND. COM. REP. NO.  198-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 1874

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1874 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to establish a rapid response emergency medical services unit to include personnel, equipment, and operational expenses for a 24-hour, seven-days-a-week, rapid response emergency medical services unit for the County of Kauai.

Numerous individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Health provided comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2070, to encourage further discussion; and

(2)  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 H.B. No. 1874, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1874, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair