STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2976

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2494

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 2494 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to permit:

 

     (1)  The self-administration of blood glucose monitoring by a student in a Department of Education school; and

 

     (2)  Department of Education employees and agents to volunteer to administer blood glucose monitoring or to assist a student with blood glucose monitoring.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education, Department of Health, Hawaii State Teachers Association, American Diabetes Association, and five individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that blood glucose monitoring is vitally important to students with diabetes.  Under certain circumstances, some students may require immediate assistance administering blood glucose tests.  Allowing Department of Education employees to assist students with diabetes in administering such tests will help keep those students medically safe at school.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2494, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health.

 

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

 

 

 

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MICHELLE N. KIDANI, Chair