STAND. COM. REP. 2169

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2163

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Human Services and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2163 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAL RECORDS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize licensed health care providers to share medical information with other licensed health care providers of children under the child protective services system.

The Department of Human Services submitted testimony in favor of this measure.

Your Committees find that this measure will enable health care providers to share necessary medical information or records of past abuse of children who are under child protective services. This measure will also support Hawaii's efforts to improve all health outcomes for the children in foster care.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2163 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Health,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair