STAND. COM. REP. NO. 341
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2015
RE: H.B. No. 253
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2015
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 253 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VACCINATIONS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Expanding authority of advanced practice registered nurses to perform certain health care services and procedures; and
(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.
Should this measure proceed further in the legislative process, your Committee respectfully requests the Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce to consider the need to retain in the measure, reference to a patient's "medical home," which is defined in section 461-11.4(e), Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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. 253, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 253, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,
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____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair |
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