Bill Text: HI SB2473 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Phthalates; Polyvinyl Chloride; Procurement; Hawaii Health Systems Corporation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-21 - (S) The committee(s) on JDL deleted the measure from the public hearing scheduled on 02-24-12 10:00AM in conference room 016. [SB2473 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2473-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2237

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2473

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 2473 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to prohibit the sale, distribution, or procurement of products or packaging containing certain toxic chemicals and to establish for the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation a preference for the procurement of polyvinyl chloride-free intravenous products.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the American Chemistry Council and the Toy Industry Association.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the State Procurement Office.

 

     Your Committees find that it is in the best interests of the State and the health of the State's residents to utilize intravenous products that do not contain polyvinyl chloride, as doing so runs the risk of chemicals leaching into a patient's blood stream and the absorption of medication by polyvinyl chloride bags.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Removing parts I and II, regarding the restriction and prohibition of products or packaging that use certain chemicals;

 

     (2)  Deleting the severability and savings clauses; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Commerce and Consumer Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2473, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2473, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Commerce and Consumer Protection,

 

____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair		____________________________ JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair