STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1566-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.C.R. No. 236

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 Education, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 236 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT A CURRICULUM IN HAWAII PUBLIC SCHOOLS THAT TEACHES STUDENTS TO PERFORM CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION AND TO IDENTIFY SYMPTOMS OF A STROKE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Department of Education to design and implement a curriculum in Hawaii public schools that teaches students to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation and to identify symptoms of a stroke.

The Queen's Health Systems and Hawai‘i Pacific Health supported this measure. The American Heart Association supported this measure with an amendment. The Department of Education provided comments on this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by requesting that the curriculum designed pursuant to this measure be implemented as part of the school health or physical education curriculum.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 236, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 236, H.D. 1.

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

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JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair