STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2263

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2072
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2072 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE
     DEVELOPMENT OF PROTOCOLS AND THE SPECIAL TRAINING OF
     PARAMEDICS IN THE TREATMENT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PATIENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation to
develop protocols and training for paramedics in treating
domestic violence victims.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Emergency Services Department of the City and County of
Honolulu, University of Hawaii, Hawaii State Commission on the
Status of Women, Hawaii Catholic Conference, and Domestic
Violence Clearinghouse Legal Hotline.  Testimony in support of
the intent of the measure was received from the Department of
Health.

     Your Committee finds that the University of Hawaii, through
its Kapiolani Community College, EMS Training Centers on Oahu,
Maui, Kaui, and Hawaii, provides continuing medical education for
Hawaii's paramedics who staff ambulances statewide.  Your
Committee further finds that any new funding for developing and
enhancing the paramedic curriculum should remain with the
University of Hawaii, with the funds administered through the
Department of Health.


 
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     Your Committee has amended this measure by appropriating the
funding to the Department of Health instead of the individual
counties.   

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2072, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 2072, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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