STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1732-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

RE:   H.C.R. No. 221

      H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health & Human Services, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 221 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO REQUIRE THAT EACH OF ITS DISTRICT HEALTH OFFICERS BE A PHYSICIAN LICENSED TO PRACTICE MEDICINE UNDER PART I OF CHAPTER 453, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request that the Department of Health require that all of its district health officers be physicians licensed to practice medicine in this State.  

One concerned individual provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Health submitted testimony in opposition.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by removing the request that the Department of Health require each of its district health officers be a physician and replacing it with a request for prioritizing having district health officers be physicians.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health & Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 221, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 221, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health & Human Services,

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair