Bill Text: HI SCR211 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: End of Life Directives; Working Group

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-04-12 - (H) Referred to HLT, JUD, referral sheet 67 [SCR211 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SCR211-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3106

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 211

       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 Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 211 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO CONVENE A WORKING GROUP TO EXAMINE OVERLAP AND CONFLICTS AMONG STATUTES RELATING TO PATIENT CARE DIRECTIVES RECOGNIZED IN HAWAII, INCLUDING PHYSICIAN ORDERS FOR LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT, "DO NOT RESUSCITATE" ORDERS, AND ADVANCE HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to request a working group to examine overlap and conflicts among patient care directives recognized in Hawaii.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by two individuals.  Testimony in support of this measure with amendments was submitted by the Healthcare Association of Hawaii and Kokua Mau.  Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committees find that salient end of life directives are a vital part of implementing effective and sensitive patient care.  Your Committees further recognize that each of the many different types of health care directives covers different aspects of complex health care circumstances but that their numerosity is confusing to laypersons and can discourage participation.  Your Committees hope that this working group will condense and simplify health care directives, where possible, without sacrificing substance or nuance. 

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Expanding the procedures and directives that the working group will examine to include all patient care directives recognized in Hawaii; and

 

     (2)  Postponing submission of the working group's report to the Legislature until 2012 to allow additional time to examine the effectiveness of physician orders for life sustaining treatment, which only came into effect in 2009.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Judiciary and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 211, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 211, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Judiciary and Government Operations,

 

____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair