Bill Text: HI SB272 | 2017 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Relating To Rat Lungworm Disease.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-04-28 - Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-17 4:15PM in conference room 329. [SB272 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2017-SB272-Amended.html

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

272

TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017

S.D. 2

STATE OF HAWAII

H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO RAT LUNGWORM DISEASE.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that the department of health has reported over seventy cases of rat lungworm disease caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis from 2001 to 2014.  There have been many more cases in 2015, including at least two on Maui.  The disease has claimed lives and caused crippling chronic disability.  The cost of treatment for one severe case can exceed $1,000,000.  The Hawaii island rat lungworm disease working group has been formed at the Daniel K. Inouye college of pharmacy at the university of Hawaii at Hilo and has been conducting research and educational outreach on the disease for the past four years.

     The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds to the university of Hawaii at Hilo for programs, studies, and activities related to the prevention and eradication of rat lungworm disease.

     SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $         or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2017-2018 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2018-2019 for programs, studies, and activities related to the prevention and eradication of rat lungworm disease, including:

     (1)  Developing an integrated pest management plan for best practices for control of rat lungworm hosts and providing that information to the public;

     (2)  Providing educational outreach materials and best practices for control for the general public and Hawaii health care providers;

     (3)  Implementing a long-term, statewide collaborative effort to monitor invasive mollusk and paratenic hosts for rat lungworm infection;

     (4)  Conducting laboratory testing to determine the effectiveness of deworming rats to reduce rat lungworm transmission;

     (5)  Conducting laboratory testing of a wide range of commercially available produce washes as well as other potential solutions;

     (6)  Conducting laboratory testing of commercially available filters and ultraviolet systems to determine effectiveness in catchment;

     (7)  Optimizing existing tests or developing new blood-based tests for rat lungworm diagnostics;

     (8)  Conducting and publishing a study on long-term recovery from rat lungworm disease and recommending medical treatments and assistance;

     (9)  Developing a rural health educational outreach program for rainwater catchment users;

    (10)  Providing educational outreach to kindergarten through twelfth grade school personnel involved in food procurement and preparation, and school garden projects;

    (11)  Developing rat lungworm curriculum and an integrated pest management plan for control of invasive hosts in all Hawaii school garden projects; and

    (12)  Providing educational outreach to farmers' groups and farmers providing food for schools to implement integrated pest maintenance for control of carriers of rat lungworm disease;

provided that the university of Hawaii at Hilo shall collaborate with the department of health, department of land and natural resources, department of agriculture, and the governor's joint rat lungworm task force, to create a statewide plan for the prevention and eradication of rat lungworm disease.

     The sums appropriated shall be expended by the university of Hawaii at Hilo for the purposes of this Act; provided that the appropriated funds shall not be released until the university of Hawaii at Hilo submits to the legislature a comprehensive plan describing specific strategies and objectives for programs, studies, and activities to prevent and eradicate rat lungworm disease in the State.   

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 31, 2150.


 


 

Report Title:

Rat Lungworm Disease; University of Hawaii at Hilo; Appropriation

 

Description:

Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii at Hilo for programs, studies, and activities related to the prevention and eradication of rat lungworm disease.  (SB272 HD1)

 

 

 

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