Bill Text: HI SB241 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Education; Administration of Epinephrine; Department of Health

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-14 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SB241 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB241-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 304

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 241

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Education and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 241 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Allow Department of Education employees and agents to volunteer to administer epinephrine to a student in anaphylactic shock;

 

     (2)  Require the Department of Health to provide proper instruction and training to every Department of Education employee or agent who volunteers to administer glucagon and epinephrine; and

 

     (3)  Require a student's parent or guardian to provide the Department of Education with written authorization for auto-injectable epinephrine and to supply injectable epinephrine supplies to administer the epinephrine.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, Community Children's Council of Hawaii, Special Education Advisory Council, and one individual.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Hawaii State Employees Association AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Health.

 

     Your Committees find that this measure is necessary to clarify that Department of Education employees and agents may volunteer to administer epinephrine to a student in anaphylactic shock. 

 

Your Committees also recognize that the Department of Education and Department of Health have been working together on the issue of providing proper instruction and training to every Department of Education employee or agent who volunteers to administer glucagon and epinephrine.  Your Committees encourage the departments to continue to their dialogue and work toward entering a memorandum of understanding to address the training issue.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 241, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 241, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Health,

 

____________________________ JOSH GREEN, Chair		____________________________ JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair