STAND. COM. REP. NO. 841

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 818

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 818, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Health and the Department of Human Services to make available to the public, free of charge, information collected from the departments' inspections of care facilities.

 

     Specifically, this measure requires, by January 1, 2011, electronic posting on the departments' respective websites of all inspection reports, including dates, descriptions of violations, planned corrective actions, and other information within an unspecified period of time after completion of the reports.

 

     Your Committee received four comments.  Written comments are available for review on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

 

     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. 818, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 818, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair