Bill Text: HI SB2827 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Trauma System Special Fund

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-10 - (S) Act 276, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1379). [SB2827 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2827-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2191

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2827

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2827 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE TRAUMA SYSTEM SPECIAL FUND,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to add to the uses of the monies in the trauma system special fund the costs of staffing and operating the State's injury prevention program.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health and the American Medical Response.

 

     Your Committee finds that injury is the leading cause of death and disability in individuals between one to forty-four years of age and that prevention programs are the most cost-effective method to reduce the risk of injury and the resulting burden of care.  Your Committee would also like to note that monies from the trauma system special fund shall not fund more than four positions in the State's injury prevention program and that only persons whose work is directly related to the injury prevention program shall receive funds from the trauma system special fund.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of January 1, 2050, to allow for further discussion.

 

     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 S.B. No. 2827, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2827, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

		____________________________ JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair