STAND. COM. REP. NO. 208

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 50

       S.D. 1

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. 50 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the law relating to health.

     Prior to the hearing on this measure, your Committee posted and made available for public review a proposed S.D. 1, which amends this measure by deleting its contents and replacing it with language to clarify that medical health professionals who are employed by the State receive a qualified immunity from personal liability when exercising their governmental discretion as employees of the State while acting in the course and scope of their state employment.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by adopting the proposed S.D. 1.

     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. 50, as amended herein, and recommends that it be recommitted to the Committee on Health, in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 50, S.D. 1, for further consideration.

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

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JOSH GREEN, Chair