STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2493

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2064
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No.
2064 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT REPEALING SECTION 327E-13(G), HAWAII
     REVISED STATUTES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require Hawaii's version of
the Uniform Health Care Decisions Act to apply to pregnant women.

     This bill accomplishes this purpose by repealing section
327E-13(g), Hawaii Revised Statutes, which originally excluded
pregnant women from being covered by the Uniform Health Care
Decisions Act.

     Your Committee agrees that an advance health care directive
executed by a woman should be valid if she later becomes pregnant
or if she executes a directive during her pregnancy.  A woman
should have the right to predetermine her medical treatment,
including treatment during her pregnancy, if she should lack the
ability to make a health care decision for herself.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2064 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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



                                   ______________________________
                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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