Bill Text: HI HB362 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Emergency Medical Care; Appropriation ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-04 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Carroll, Coffman, Takumi, Tokioka excused (4). [HB362 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB362-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  21

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 362

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 362 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to assist the City and County of Honolulu Emergency Medical Services Division with expanding emergency medical services and ambulance services in Ewa Beach by appropriating funds for increasing the on-call availability of such services in Ewa Beach to 24 hours per day.

 

     United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO, Queen's Medical Center, and two concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Health submitted comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion; 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 Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 362, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 362, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair