STAND. COM. REP. NO.  265-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2575

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2575 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRAUMA,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to provide statutory protection from discovery for multidisciplinary and multiagency quality assurance and peer review committees formed by the Department of Health (DOH) to analyze, evaluate, and improve the statewide trauma system.

 

     DOH, the Healthcare Association of Hawaii, American Medical Response, and The Queen's Medical Center testified in support of this bill.  The Hawaii Association for Justice opposed this measure.  The Office of Information Practices offered comments.

 

     Your Committee finds that the provisions of the Uniform Information Practices Act, Chapter 92F, Hawaii Revised Statutes (Act), can be applied to information held by DOH that results from the review process and still have disclosure protections that are provided in the Act.  Accordingly, your Committee has amended this bill by deleting the language that exempts the information from Chapter 92F.

 

 

 

     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. 2575, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2575, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair