Bill Text: HI SB498 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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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

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1085

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 498

      S.D. 2

 

 

 

 

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. 498, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to improve the provision of effective pre-hospital care on Maui by appropriating funds to establish a twenty-four-hour, seven-days-a-week special emergency medical response unit based in Maalaea, Maui, including the acquisition of a vehicle, purchase of equipment, and personnel costs for staffing by a state licensed paramedic.

 

     The Hawaii State Rural Health Association, American Medical Response, Maui County Paramedics Association, Ma'alaea Community Association, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, and numerous individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Health commented on this measure.

 

     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, S.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair