STAND. COM. REP. NO. 210

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1281

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1281 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate monies for additional emergency medical services in the Moanalua, Aliamanu, Red Hill, Salt Lake, and Foster Village areas.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the United Public Workers.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Health.

     Your Committee finds that more emergency services are needed in the Moanalua, Aliamanu, Red Hill, Salt Lake, and Foster Village areas on the island of Oahu.  As calls for emergency response services increase, a greater burden is placed on the City and County of Honolulu Emergency Medical Services Division to respond to emergency calls in these areas.  This increased workload threatens the ability of the Division to provide acceptable levels of emergency medical services.

     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. 1281 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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JOSH GREEN, Chair