SB941 SD1 SSCR2061

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO.2061

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 941

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Labor and Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 941 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make compensable, services rendered for work-related injuries by occupational therapists and certified occupational therapists under the State's workers' compensation law.

Testimony in support of the measure was received from the Occupational Therapy Association of Hawaii, the Hawaii Chapter, American Physical Therapy Association, the Massage Therapists Association of Hawaii, Kaiser Permanente, Straub Clinic and Hospital, the Queen's Medical Center, Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific, and numerous occupational therapists and citizens. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations had no objections to the measure.

Your Committees find that the measure accomplishes this purpose by including occupational therapists and certified occupational therapists within the definition of ""medical care", "medical services", or "medical supplies"" in the State's workers' compensation law.

Your Committees have amended the measure by deleting the proposed reference to "certified occupational therapist" and replacing it with the term "certified occupational therapy assistant".

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor and Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 941, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 941, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Labor and Health and Human Services,

____________________________ DAVID MATSUURA, Chair		____________________________ BOB NAKATA, Chair