STAND. COM. REP. NO.  339

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 749

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 749 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NURSE AIDES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure that nurse aides are proficient in necessary skills by making the competency evaluation requirement for nurse aides working in state-approved health care settings and Medicare or Medicaid certified nurse aides part of the continuing education hours and maintenance requirements for recertification.

 

     The Alliance of Residential Care Administrators submitted testimony in support of this bill.  The Department of Human Services submitted comments.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 749, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 749, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.


 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services,

 

 

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair