STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1475

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1063

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1063, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize and appropriate funds for an additional emergency medical services unit to serve the Moanalua, Aliamanu, Red Hill, Salt Lake, and Foster Village areas.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Health.

 

     Your Committee finds that Moanalua, Aliamanu, Red Hill, Salt Lake, and Foster Village on the island of Oahu are densely populated areas that are significant distances from each of the two nearest hospitals, Kuakini Hospital in Liliha and Pali Momi Hospital in Aiea.  Persons calling for medical service often face long response times, and this problem may worsen without additional emergency medical services.

 

     Accordingly, your Committee finds that an additional emergency medical services unit is needed to provide acceptable levels of services to the Moanalua, Aliamanu, Red Hill, Salt Lake, and Foster Village areas.

 

     Your Committee notes that if sufficient moneys are available in the emergency medical services special fund to fund the purpose of this measure, those moneys should be utilized prior to the expenditure of moneys appropriated by this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2060, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

     (2)  Making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1063, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1063, H.D. 2, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair