STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2216

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2729

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2729 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO IMMUNIZATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to establish the Hawaii immunization registry to maintain a single statewide repository of immunization records.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Department of Health; Kaiser Permanente; Hawaii Medical Service Association; Hawaii Family Forum; Hawaii Association of Independent Schools; Hawaii Association of Health Plans; and two individuals.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     The purpose of establishing a single statewide repository of immunization records is to aid, coordinate, and help promote efficient and cost-effective screening, prevention, and control of vaccine preventable diseases, including pandemic influenza.  For patients who change health care providers, the Hawaii immunization registry will be accessible by their new provider to ensure that patients receive the immunizations they need while preventing the administration of unnecessary doses of vaccine.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

 

     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. 2729, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2729, 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,

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair