STAND. COM. REP. NO. 38

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 657

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 657 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAL SERVICES PROVIDERS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to protect medical service providers, not just emergency medical service providers, from bodily injury in the performance of their duties.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Kaiser Permanente, Hawaii Medical Association, and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that current law provides protection against bodily injury to health care personnel in hospital emergency rooms.  This measure will expand the scope of protection beyond hospital emergency rooms to include the entire hospital, medical clinics, and federally qualified health centers.

 

     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. 657 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 


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

 

 

 

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JOSH GREEN, Chair