STAND. COM. REP. NO.  503-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2050

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Human Services and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2050 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to address healthcare concerns involving gender, race, and ethnicity by requiring training programs and the recertification process for nurse aides to include a multicultural health awareness and education program.

 

     A concerned individual supported the measure.  The Department of Human Services supported the intent of the measure with amendments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Adding multicultural health awareness and education to the continuing education requirements for recertification;

    

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to promote further discussion; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2050, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2050, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Health,

 

 

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair		____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair