STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1100-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 1676

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1676, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Health for the purchase of an ambulance vehicle and the operational costs for a twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week ambulance unit for the County of Kauai.

Six Councilmembers of the Kaua‘i County Council, the Kaua‘i Fire Department, Hawai‘i Fire Department, Hawaii Fire Fighters Association, American Medical Response – Kauai County, Kupuna Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i, Hawai‘i Pacific Health, Wilcox Medical Center, and several individuals testified in support of this measure. The Department of Health and a few individuals provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Expanding the purpose of the appropriation to include ambulance vehicles and operational costs for ambulance units without restriction to any county; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 1676, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1676, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair