STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1021

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1146
                                        S.D. 1                                        



Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was
referred H.B. No. 1146 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VITAL RECORD FEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make permanent the
statutory enactments of Act 216, Session Laws of Hawaii 1997.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Health (DOH), Hawaii State Commission on
the Status of Women, Injury Prevention Advisory Committee,
Violence Prevention Consortium, Sex Abuse Treatment Center, and
Keiki Injury Prevention Coalition.  Testimony in opposition was
received from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA).

     This is an administration measure that provides continued
funding for the improvement of the vital statistics system and
prevention of domestic violence and sexual assault.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Increasing the fee amount to be deposited into the
          vital statistics improvement special fund from $1 to $3
          and making a corresponding increase from $4 to $6 for
          each copy issued;

     (2)  Requiring, on request in writing from OHA or the
          Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) that copies of
          certificates be provided free of charge as to Native

 
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          Hawaiians if the copies are provided directly by the
          DOH to OHA or DHHL in connection with a claim or an
          entitlement;

     (3)  Repealing the Act on June 30, 2003; and

     (4)  Renumbering sections accordingly.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Health and Human Services that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 1146, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1146,
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 and Human
                                   Services,



                                   ______________________________
                                   SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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