STAND. COM. REP. 2149

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 53

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 53 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AMBULANCE SERVICE IN THE KIHEI/WAILEA REGION OF MAUI,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for ambulance service in the Kihei/Wailea region of Maui.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from six members of the County Council of Maui, the American Medical Response, the South Maui Coalition of Community Associations, Wailea Community Association, Kula Community Association, the Maui Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee, and an emergency medical technician.

The Department of Health submitted testimony in support of the intent of this measure, but opposed funding.

Your Committee finds that the Kihei/Wailea region of Maui is the fastest growing community in the State, but is served by only one twenty-four hour, locally based advanced life support ambulance service. The addition of another twenty-four hour advanced life support ambulance service would reduce the extra twenty to thirty minutes response time, which would mean the difference between life and death for residents and tourists in the area.

This measure is amended to update the appropriation year to 2004-2005.

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 S.B. No. 53, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 53, S.D. 1, 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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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair