Bill Text: HI HB1708 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Mental Health; Emergency Examination; Telemedicine

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-08 - (S) Referred to HTH/JDL, WAM. [HB1708 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1708-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  819-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1708

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1708, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to allow licensed physicians, psychiatrists, and psychologists to use telemedicine to conduct emergency examinations of patients at psychiatric facilities; provided that a health care professional is present in the room with the patient during the examination and the facility is located in a geographically remote area with no immediate access to a licensed physician, psychiatrist, or psychologist.

 

     The Department of Health testified in support of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1708, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair