Bill Text: HI SB498 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Emergency Medical Services; Special Emergency Medical Response Vehicle Unit; Appropriation ($)
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-07-02 - Act 242, on 6/28/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1345). [SB498 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-SB498-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 80
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 498
S.D. 1
Honorable Donna Mercado Kim
President of the Senate
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 498 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to establish a twenty-four-hour, seven-days-a-week, special emergency medical response vehicle unit to be based in the Maalaea area on Maui, including acquisition of a vehicle, equipment, and personnel costs for twenty-four-hour, seven-days-a-week staffing by a paramedic trained in advanced life support.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health and fifty-two individuals.
Your Committee finds that the population of West and South Maui has significantly increased over the years, which has corresponded with a steady increase of approximately one thousand calls per year for emergency medical services. Your Committee further finds that the population growth and increase in call volume in West and South Maui affect the timely response capabilities of the two ambulances that serve residents in these districts, especially if emergency medical services must respond from an "out-of-district" location. Your Committee also finds that a new special emergency medical response vehicle unit will help reduce death and disability among residents and visitors on the island of Maui by supporting the two existing ambulance units in each of the busiest regions of West and South Maui, as well as by being available to assist Central Maui.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing all references from "paramedic trained in advanced life support" to "state licensed paramedic" at the request of the Department of Health; and
(2) Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of 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. 498, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 498, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,
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____________________________ JOSH GREEN, Chair |
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