STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1057-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2775

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2775, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CARE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a communication and optical resolution process through which patients and their families, health care providers, and health care facilities can engage in open communication about how an adverse health care incident occurred, how a future incident will be prevented, and what compensation, if any, will be offered to the patient or their family.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Healthcare Association of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that despite the best efforts of hospitals, doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals, about one in ten patients is harmed in health care. Your Committee further finds that the Communication and Optimal Resolution (CANDOR) process is an alternative resolution process that allows health care institutions and practitioners to respond in a timely, thorough, and just way when unexpected events cause patient harm.

Your Committee has amended this measure by 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 Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2775, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2775, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair