Bill Text: HI SB727 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Automated External Defibrillator Training; Immunity from Civil Liability

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB727 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB727-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 302

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 727

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 727 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to protect public health by encouraging employers to provide automated external defibrillator programs.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health.  Copies of written testimony are available for review on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure encourages employers to provide external defibrillator programs by specifying that any person, including an employer, who provides for an automated external defibrillator program shall not be vicariously liable for any civil damages resulting from good faith resuscitation of a person who is in immediate danger of loss of life.

 

     Your Committee further finds that this measure will help to protect public health by removing liability concerns of employers for providing automated external defibrillator programs in hopes that employers will be encouraged to provide more of these programs.

 

     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. 727 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair