Bill Text: HI SB2382 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Premature Infants; Hospital Discharge and Follow-up Procedure

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-12 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SB2382 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2382-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2308

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2382

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2382 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PREMATURE INFANT HEALTH CARE,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Health to develop a plan to improve hospital discharge and follow‑up care procedures for premature infants to better ensure standardized and coordinated hospital discharge and follow-up care for infants born prematurely.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Health.  Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committees find that premature birth is the leading cause of newborn death and that it is associated with very high incidences of serious, debilitating health problems.  Your Committees further find that this measure will improve the quality of care for newborn infants born prematurely by increasing parent awareness of the health issues specific to premature infants and by developing a plan to improve hospital discharge and follow-up procedures for infants born prematurely.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Including an appropriation from Healthy Hawaii Initiative funds to carry out the purposes of this Act; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity and accuracy in the language of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2382, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2382, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services,

 

____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair