STAND. COM. REP. NO.  31-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1777

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1777 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to provide safeguards for student health by:

 

(1)  Authorizing Department of Education employees and agents with specified training to volunteer to administer epinephrine in an emergency situation to a student with anaphylactic shock;

 

(2)  Requiring training in the emergency administration of glucagon or epinephrine to students to be conducted by the Department of Health, rather than a qualified health care professional; and

 

(3)  Making an appropriation for instruction, training, and related expenses.

 

     The Department of Education, Department of Health, Special Education Advisory Council, and the seventeen Community Children's Councils supported this measure.  Mylan, Inc. supported this measure with amendments.  The Hawaii Association for Justice opposed this measure.  A concerned individual provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Replacing the term "anaphylactic shock" with "anaphylaxis"; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and consistency, including references to qualified health care professionals.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1777, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1777, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Health.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair