STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1038

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1063

       H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1063, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for an additional emergency medical services unit in the Moanalua, Aliamanu, Red Hill, Salt Lake, and Foster Village areas.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Honolulu Emergency Services Department, Emergency Medical Service Division; United Public Workers, Local 646; and two individuals.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Health.

 

     Your Committee finds that more emergency services are needed in the Moanalua, Aliamanu, Red Hill, Salt Lake, and Foster Village areas on the island of Oahu.  As calls for emergency response services increase, a greater burden is placed on the City and County of Honolulu Emergency Medical Services Division to respond to emergency calls in these areas.  This increased workload threatens the ability of the Division to provide acceptable levels of emergency medical services.

 

     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. 1063, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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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JOSH GREEN, Chair