STAND. COM. REP. NO.  459

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 464

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 464 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to support the emergency medical service needs of the Kakaako area by appropriating funds for the purchase of an ambulance vehicle and the operational costs for one ambulance unit, including equipment, supplies, and personnel costs for state-certified emergency medical service personnel to service the Kakaako area on Oahu.

 

     The City and County of Honolulu and the United Public Workers supported this measure.  The Department of Health commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion; and

 

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.


     Should this measure be deliberated further in the legislative process, your Committee respectfully requests that the Committee on Finance consider specifying that the ambulance vehicle, ambulance unit, and related resources be used to support daily peak hours.

 

     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. 464, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 464, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair