Bill Text: HI HB2273 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Concussions; Concussion Awareness Program; School Athletics

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-06 - (S) Act 197, 7/3/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1300). [HB2273 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2273-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  931-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2273

 

 

 

 

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. 2273 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONCUSSIONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to help protect the health and safety of student athletes by requiring the Department of Education and Hawaii High School Athletic Association to develop a concussion educational program.  

 

     The Department of Education, Department of Health, Hawaii Association of Athletic Trainers, Hawaii Medical Association, Hawaii Medical Service Association, Hawaii Chapter of the American Physical Therapy Association, and the Keiki Injury Prevention Coalition supported the 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. 2273 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair