STAND. COM. REP. NO. 686-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2513
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred H.B. No. 2513 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO UNCLAIMED CORPSES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow the Med-QUEST Division
to dispose of unclaimed corpses in a timely manner.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
State Department of Human Services and Department of Defense.

     Your Committee finds that the provisions of this bill will
allow for expedient and dignified disposition of unclaimed
corpses.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by amending Sections
841-10 and 327-31, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), to reconcile
any discrepancy with proposed Section 346-15(f), HRS.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 2513, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No.
2513, H.D. 1.

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



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                                   ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair