STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3647

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: GOV. MSG. NO. 325

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred Governor's Message No. 325, submitting for study and consideration the nomination of:

Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee

G.M. No. 325

DAVID WILLIAM MAY,

for a term to expire 6-30-2010,

begs leave to report as follows:

Your Committee received testimony in support of DAVID WILLIAM MAY from the Department of Health and one individual. Your Committee notes that Mr. May currently serves on the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee and is being nominated for reappointment. He began serving on the Committee in 2000 and was reappointed to a four-year term in 2002 to expire in 2006. This present nomination for reappointment in 2006 is to expire in 2010 which would appoint Mr. May to ten consecutive years on the Committee. Under section 26-34, Hawaii Revised Statutes, membership on any board or commission shall not exceed eight consecutive years. The Attorney General Opinion, 74-4, states that the appointee may only be appointed to another term contingent upon his resignation after his eighth consecutive year. Therefore, your Committee finds that Mr. May's July 2006 appointment to the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee is contingent on his resignation from the Committee no later than June 30, 2008. Mr. May is a Registered Nurse at Maui Memorial Medical Center. His experience with air ambulance and emergency medical services enables him to be a valuable asset to the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee, after full consideration of the background, experience, and qualifications of the nominee, has found the nominee to be qualified for the position to which nominated and recommends that the Senate advise and consent to the nomination.

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

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair