STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1599

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   S.B. No. 304

      S.D. 2

      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 Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 304, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to improve health care services for women in the State by establishing and funding the Hawaii Maternal Mortality Review Panel within the Department of Health to conduct comprehensive, multidisciplinary reviews of maternal deaths in the State to identify factors associated with the deaths and make recommendations for system changes to improve health care services for women in the State.

 

     The Hawaii Medical Association supported this measure.  The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Hawaii Section commented on this measure.  

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 304, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair