STAND. COM. REP. NO.  54

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 696

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 696 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish the Hawaii Healthcare Workforce Advisory Board to advise the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations in fulfilling the objectives for socio-cultural advancement relating to health, under Section 226-20, Hawaii Revised Statutes, of the Hawaii State Planning Act.

The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Hawaii Primary Care Association, and an individual supported this measure.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations commented on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Adding a member of the Center of Nursing to the Hawaii Healthcare Workforce Advisory Board;

(2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion; and

(3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments to eliminate a redundancy and for clarity and style.

     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 H.B. No. 696, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 696, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Labor & Public Employment.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair