STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2193

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: S.B. No. 417

S.D. 2

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 417, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department of Health to:

(1) Establish reasonable fees to be collected from individuals who are:

(A) Transported by emergency ambulance services to a medical facility; or

(B) Provided emergency medical services by emergency medical services personnel but are not subsequently transported to a medical facility; and

(2) Permit and regulate transport by ambulance to medical facilities other than hospital emergency departments.

American Medical Response submitted testimony in support of this measure. The Department of Health, Department of Human Services, and Hawaii Medical Service Association submitted comments on this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Making an unspecified appropriation to meet collective bargaining requirements and personnel costs for service providers contracted to provide pre-hospital emergency medical services; and

(2) Making technical, non-substantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 417, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 417, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair