STAND. COM. REP. NO. 386-16
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2016
RE: H.B. No. 1788
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2016
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1788 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHILD AND MATERNAL DEATH REVIEWS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Blanking out the appropriation amount;
(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2070, to encourage further discussion; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
Your Committee notes that Hawaii is one of only 13 states without a multi-disciplinary professional panel to review pregnancy-related deaths, and only one of two states not conducting child death reviews.
Should the Committee on Finance deliberate on this measure further, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $150,000 for the Department of Health to conduct child death reviews and to implement a program for the performance of maternal death reviews.
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. 1788, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1788, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,
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____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair |
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