STAND. COM. REP. NO.  961-16

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 Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1874, H.D. 1, 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.

Hawaii Pacific Health, Wilcox Memorial Hospital, and American Medical Response provided testimony in support of the measure.  The Department of Health provided comments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1874, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair