STAND. COM. REP. NO. 462

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1020
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services and Judiciary,
to which was referred S.B. No. 1020 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EPIDEMIOLOGIC
     INVESTIGATIONS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this administration measure is to allow the
Department of Health (DOH) to conduct epidemiological
investigations.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this
measure from the DOH, Hawaii Medical Association (HMA), and
Office of Informational Practices.

     According to the DOH, this measure would update its ability
to investigate significant causes of illness which threaten the
public health, while protecting the confidentiality of
information and shielding the providers of information from
liability.

     Your Committees have amended this measure on the
recommendation of the HMA to limit the view of the authorized
representative of the Director of Health to only that material
which is relevant to the scope of the investigation.  Your
Committees have also made technical, nonsubstantive amendments
for purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your

 
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Committees on Health and Human Services and Judiciary that are
attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1020, as amended herein, and
recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto
as S.B. No. 1020, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on
Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Health and Human
                                   Services and Judiciary,


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AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair        SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair



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MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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