STAND. COM. REP. NO.  439

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 698

      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 Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 698 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOL HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to improve the delivery of school health services by establishing an interagency working group, jointly convened by the Department of Education and Department of Health, to create a comprehensive school health program.

 

     The Hawaii Primary Care Association and Hawaii Public Health Institute supported this measure.  The Department of Education and University of Hawaii School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene supported the intent of the measure.  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs supported the measure with amendments.  The Department of Health submitted comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended the measure by:

 

     (1)  Removing the chairperson of the Senate standing Committee on Education, chairperson of the House of Representatives standing Committee on Education, chairperson of the Senate standing Committee on Health, chairperson of the House of Representatives standing committee on Health, or their designees from membership on the interagency working group; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 698, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 698, 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