Bill Text: HI SB1138 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Vaccination Guidelines

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-07-02 - Act 231, on 6/27/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1334). [SB1138 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1138-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1217

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1138

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1138 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VACCINATION GUIDELINES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department of Health to establish by rule:

 

(A)  A list of specific vaccines which are available or may become available; and

 

(B)  The immunization recommendations of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, including interim recommendations, as they apply to the list of specific vaccines for use as school enrollment prerequisites and in the larger public health context.

 

     The Department of Health, Hawaii Medical Association, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, Walgreens, and an individual supported this measure.  An individual opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee notes that this measure is similar to H.B. No. 907, which was previously considered and passed by this Committee and your House Committee on Judiciary. 

 

 

     Upon consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Including a purpose section setting forth the purpose of this measure;

 

(2)  Removing the requirement for publication of notice of changes to rules relating to federal vaccination recommendations in a newspaper of general circulation;

 

(3)  Deleting redundant provisions relating to the administration of vaccines and the effect of rules; and

 

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

 

     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 S.B. No. 1138, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1138, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair