STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3284

 

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 Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health, 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 Health; American Diabetes Association; Hawaii Nurses Association, OPEIU Local 50; and nine 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.  This measure will allow Department of Education employees to assist students with diabetes in administering such tests to help keep those students medically safe at school, while ensuring that volunteers who provide diabetes care or assistance receive instruction in blood glucose monitoring from a qualified health professional and are authorized by the Department to perform such tasks.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health 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 Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health,

 

 

 

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair