STAND. COM. REP. NO. 307

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1255

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1255 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate general funds to the Department of Health to demolish the Ewa Beach fire facility and construct a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified emergency medical services facility at the same location.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health and United Public Workers.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the American Chemistry Council.

 

     Your Committees find that with the relocation of Honolulu fire engine twenty-four, which serviced Ewa Beach, emergency response times to Ewa Beach have been negatively impacted.  Your Committees find that the prior location of Honolulu fire engine twenty-four is ideal for an ambulance service and that by triangulating emergency first responders and emergency medical services, emergency response times and service to Ewa Beach would be improved.  Therefore, your Committees find it necessary to appropriate funds for the demolition of the Ewa Beach fire facility and the construction of a LEED certified emergency medical services facility at the same location.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1255 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair

 

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JOSH GREEN, Chair