STAND. COM. REP. NO.  725

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 582

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 582 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to make an appropriation for the establishment of a twenty-four-hour, seven-days-a-week, rapid response emergency medical services unit to serve the Mililani/Mililani Mauka area on Oahu.

 

     The Honolulu Emergency Services Department, the Mililani/Waipio/Melemanu Neighborhood Board No. 25, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Health opposed this measure. 

 

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1) Reducing the appropriation amount from $1,900,000 to

          $1,500,000; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style,

          clarity, and consistency.

 


     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 H.B. No. 582, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 582, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair