STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2869

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2072

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2072 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR ATHLETIC HEALTH CARE TRAINERS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to establish and fill 16.5 permanent FTE athletic health care trainer positions in the public schools that would be assigned and filled based upon criteria established by the Department of Education.

Your Committee finds that additional athletic health care trainers are necessary to provide quality care for student athletes. An increase in the number of teams and participants in multiple athletic venues has shifted the focus of care from conditioning, injury prevention, and rehabilitative programs to injury management. Additional qualified athletic health care trainers are necessary to shift the focus back to conditioning, injury prevention, and rehabilitation. Your Committee finds that these positions should be made permanent and classified within the appropriate collective bargaining unit.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Making an unspecified appropriation for medical and rehabilitation supplies for athletic health care trainers; and

(2) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, style, and consistency.

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. 2072, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2072, S.D. 1.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair