STAND. COM. REP. NO.  503

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1537

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1537 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to specify that any person, including an employer, that provides for an automatic external defibrillator training program shall not be vicariously liable for any civil damages resulting from any act or omission by a Good Samaritan attempting to use an automatic external defibrillator, except as may result from gross negligence or wanton acts or omissions.

 

     The Department of Health, American Heart Association, Hawaii Independent Condominium and Cooperative Owners, and AED Institute of America, Inc., supported this bill. 

 

     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 H.B. No. 1537 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair