Bill Text: HI SB930 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Volunteer Medical Assistance Services
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-05-24 - (H) Act 134, on 5/24/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 351). [SB930 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SB930-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 901-10
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2010
RE: S.B. No. 930
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 930, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VOLUNTEER MEDICAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to ensure access to volunteer professional medical services by providing medical expenses and immunity from civil liability for licensed medical personnel providing volunteer assistance services on behalf of the State or a county.
The Department of Health and Hawaii Medical Association testified in support of this bill.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Including physician assistants in the types of volunteer medical assistance personnel covered by the provisions of this bill; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 930, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 930, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ JON RIKI KARAMATSU, Chair |
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