STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2222
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2622
S.D. 1
Honorable Colleen Hanabusa
President of the Senate
Twenty-Fourth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2008
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2622 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS AT THE STATE CAPITOL,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to support public health and safety by implementing rapid response procedures for victims of cardiac arrest.
Specifically, this measure appropriates funds for an automated external defibrillator for each floor of the State Capitol building.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the American Heart Association and the Automated External Defibrillator Institute of America. The Department of Health submitted testimony in support of the intent of this measure.
Your Committee finds that sudden cardiac arrest is a life-threatening public health crisis for which rapid response procedures, including early defibrillation, are critical to survival. Your Committee further finds that providing for the installation and training of automated external defibrillators in the State Capitol building will set an excellent example for other businesses and organizations in the State to follow.
Your Committee amended this measure by clarifying that an appropriate number of automated external defibrillators should be provided for in addition to training of all State Capitol employees.
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. 2622, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2622, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,
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____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair |
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