Bill Text: HI HB2564 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Volunteer Medical Assistance Services; Volunteer Emergency Medical Response Services

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-10 - (S) Act 265, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1368). [HB2564 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2564-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2895

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2564

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2564, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VOLUNTEER MEDICAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to add pharmacists to the list of volunteer medical assistance personnel and volunteer emergency medical disaster response personnel who shall be provided immunity from liability while providing volunteer medical assistance or emergency response services.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, The Queen's Health Systems, and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that the lack of coverage for professional liability may result in valuable medical personnel not participating as state volunteers, thereby limiting the ability of the State to draw upon the skills of such individuals as a critical public health resource in emergency and non-emergency situations.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to upon approval.

 

     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 H.B. No. 2564, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2564, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

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

 

		____________________________ JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair