Bill Text: HI HB2081 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Premature Infants; Hospital Discharge and Follow-up Procedure

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-08 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting no (0) and Carroll, Magaoay, Sagum excused (3). [HB2081 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2081-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  187-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2081

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2081 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PREMATURE INFANT HEALTH CARE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to improve health outcomes for premature infants by requiring the Department of Health (DOH) to prepare and distribute to their parents written educational information about the proper care of preterm infants and information about available services and community resources.

 

     Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii, MedImmune, and March of Dimes Hawaii Chapter testified in support of this bill.  DOH opposed this bill.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure is an important first step toward reducing re-hospitalizations and improving healthcare quality and outcomes for infants born premature.  Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Requiring DOH to prepare the written educational information not later than January 1, 2012, rather than July 1, 2011;

 

(2)  Specifying that the publication be written in multiple diverse languages appropriate for parents of premature infants, rather than for a wide socioeconomic range of parents;

 

(3)  Requiring the information to be updated every three, instead of every two, years; and

 

     (4)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020.

 

     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. 2081, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2081, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair