STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2229

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2854

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2854 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE NEUROTRAUMA ADVISORY BOARD,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to decrease the total number of members on the Neurotrama Advisory Board from twenty-one to at least eleven members, while maintaining representation of nearly all existing parties.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health.

     Your Committee finds that a smaller number of members on the Neurotrama Advisory Board will allow the Board to achieve quorum on a regular basis, which will improve its effectiveness and capacity to assist the Department of Health.  Your Committee further finds that this measure is necessary to remove member representation from the Spinal Cord Injury Association, which is no longer in operation.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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. 2854, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2854, 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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JOSH GREEN, Chair