STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2521

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2975

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2975 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow Department of Education employees to administer or assist students in administering blood glucose monitoring tests.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health and eleven individuals.

     Your Committee finds that blood glucose monitoring is vitally important to students with diabetes.  Under certain circumstances, some students may require immediate assistance administering blood glucose tests.  Allowing Department of Education employees to assist students with diabetes in administering such tests will help keep those students medically safe at school, while ensuring that volunteers who provide diabetes care or assistance will receive instruction in blood glucose monitoring from a qualified health professional and will be fully protected from liability.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2975 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair