Bill Text: HI SB2103 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Health; Licensed Practical Nurse; Registered Nurse; Physician Assistant

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-10 - (S) Act 255, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1358). [SB2103 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2103-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1131-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2103

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2103, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify that licensed practical nurses and registered nurses are required to use reasonable judgment in carrying out the orders of a licensed physician assistant practicing with physician supervision and acting as an agent of the supervising physician.

 

     The Representative of the 38^th Representative District, Board of Nursing, Hawaii Medical Association, The Queen's Medical Center, Hawaii State Center for Nursing, Hawaii Academy of Physician Assistants, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Hawaii Association of Professional Nurses and a concerned individual opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050.

 

     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. 2103, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2103, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair