STAND. COM. REP. NO.  512

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 1484

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1484 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ASSAULT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish the offense of assault in the second degree if a person intentionally or knowingly causes bodily injury to a health care or human services professional.

The Honolulu Police Department; Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; Hawaii Pacific Health; Healthcare Association of Hawaii; and three individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Queen's Health Systems provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the definition of "health care or human services professional" to only include licensed health care professionals;

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2090, to facilitate further discussion; and

     (3)  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. 1484, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1484, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

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

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair