Bill Text: HI HB2665 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Statewide Stroke System of Care; Primary Stroke Center; Acute Stroke Capable Center; Training and Transport Protocol

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-28 - (H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB2665 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2665-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  561-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2665

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 2665, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STROKE TREATMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to improve the treatment of stroke in Hawaii by, among other things:

 

     (1)  Establishing a statewide stroke system of care by designating primary stroke centers and acute stroke capable centers;

 

     (2)  Defining emergency services training and transport protocols;

 

     (3)  Establishing a Stroke Registry Working Group; and

 

     (4)  Establishing a Stroke System of Care Task Force.

 

     The Hawaii Medical Service Association and Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs supported this bill.  The Department of Health and American Heart Association supported the intent of this measure.  The Queen's Health Systems submitted comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2665, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2665, H.D. 2.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

 

 

		____________________________ ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair