Bill Text: HI SB2822 | 2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Asthma.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-1)
Status: (Passed) 2022-06-27 - Act 147, on 06/27/2022 (Gov. Msg. No. 1248). [SB2822 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-SB2822-Amended.html
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO ASTHMA.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that, according to the department
of health, more than one hundred ten thousand Hawaii residents are living with
asthma and approximately one-third of those are children. The chronic respiratory disease occurs most
commonly among those eleven years of age and younger. Every year, some five thousand people in
Hawaii visit emergency rooms due to asthma and another one thousand five hundred
are hospitalized. Infants and very young
children make up the majority of asthma-related medical emergencies and
hospitalizations. Every year, asthma costs
the state approximately $4,200,000 in emergency room visits and approximately $14,000,000
in hospitalizations. Although the asthma
mortality rate has declined over the past ten years, there was an average of twenty-two
deaths per year from asthma in Hawaii between 2013 and 2015.
The legislature further finds that published
research funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the
Journal of School Health has shown that students who engage in school-based
asthma education experienced significantly fewer days with activity limitations
and significantly fewer nights of sleep disturbance after participation in the
intervention. For health care
utilization, students reported significantly less frequent emergency department
visits or hospitalizations between the baseline and follow-up surveys. School-based asthma curriculum designed
specifically for urban students has been shown to reduce symptoms, activity
limitations, and health care utilization for intervention participants.
The purpose of this Act is to require the department
of education to offer optional asthma education instruction to students and to require
teachers and other department employees to obtain asthma training.
SECTION 2. Chapter 302A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part II, subpart C, to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§302A- Asthma
education instruction. (a) The
department shall offer optional asthma self-management instruction to students with
asthma. The instruction shall be age-appropriate
and the topics shall include:
(1) Asthma
facts, physiology, and early warning signs;
(2) Symptoms and triggers
of asthma; and
(3) Asthma self-management
skills.
(b) The department may coordinate with any public or
private entity to provide the instruction required under this section.
(c) The department may use existing educational and training resources available in the public and private sectors when developing the instruction required under this section."
SECTION 3. Chapter 302A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part III, subpart B, to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§302A- Asthma
training. (a) The department shall develop and provide required
asthma training to teachers and other department employees who interact with students.
The training required under this section
shall include recognizing
asthma and asthma
management.
(b) The department shall allow parents and guardians
of students and any other department employee to attend the training at no cost.
(c) The department shall set the standards and
frequency for the training and may coordinate as necessary with any public or
private entity to provide the training required under this section.
(d) The department may use existing educational and training resources available in the public and private sectors when developing the training required under this section."
SECTION 4. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2023.
Report Title:
Asthma; Department of Education; Training; Teachers; Instruction
Description:
Requires the Department of Education to offer optional asthma education instruction to students and provide mandatory asthma training to teachers and other department employees who interact with students. Effective 7/1/2023. (SD1)
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