STAND. COM. REP. NO. 622

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 835
                                        S.D. 2




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 835, S.D. 1, entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of
Health to establish and administer an aeromedical emergency
medical services information system and to contract for emergency
aeromedical services.

     The bill also establishes an emergency aeromedical services
quality improvement advisory committee to analyze information
collected and requires the Director of Health to appoint specific
members.

     Your Committee finds that a quality aeromedical services
system is critical to the health and welfare of all people,
particularly those in the rural areas of the Big Island.
Although this bill provides statutory recognition of aeromedical
services, the Department of Health currently provides aeromedical
services.  This bill is an outgrowth of an aeromedical task force
that assisted the Department of Health by making recommendations
to improve current aeromedical services.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has made the
following amendments:

 
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     (1)  Substituted the contents of the bill with the original
          draft of S.B. No. 835;

     (2)  Added a new section 5 to amend section 321-232, Hawaii
          Revised Statutes, to create an emergency medical
          services special fund; and

     (3)  Added a new section 6 to create the emergency medical
          services special fund.

     The amendments to create the emergency medical services
special fund were made at the recommendation of the Department of
Health.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
835, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 835, S.D. 2.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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