STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1372

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2023

 

RE:   S.B. No. 830

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 830, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL RESPONSE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Require each Department of Education school to establish a critical emergency response team and procedures to respond immediately to critical emergencies; and

 

     (2)  Appropriate funds for Department of Education schools to implement the critical emergency response teams.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from seven individuals.  Your Committee received testimony in support of the intent of this measure from the Department of Education.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Hawaii Association for Justice and two individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that H.B. 942, H.D. 1 (Regular Session of 2023), the companion to this measure, was previously passed by the House.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Inserting language from H.B. No. 942, H.D. 1, (Regular Session of 2023), that:

 

          (A)  Removed the establishment of procedures for the critical emergency response teams;

 

          (B)  Requires each public charter school to establish a critical emergency response team;

 

          (C)  Appropriates an unspecified amount of funds to the State Public Charter School Commission for critical emergency teams at the charter schools;

 

          (D)  Updates its purpose; and

 

          (E)  Changes the effective date to June 30, 3000; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 830, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 830, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair