STAND. COM. REP. NO. 969-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2863
                                     S.D. 1
                                     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 S.B. No. 2863, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ADVANCE HEALTH-CARE
     DIRECTIVES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to allow an individual's
driver's license and civil identification card to display a
symbol indicating the existence of an advance health care
directive.

     Testimony in support of this bill was provided by the
Executive Office on Aging, the Hawaii Medical Association, the
Healthcare Association of Hawaii, and a concerned individual.
The State Attorney General testified in support of this bill as
it relates to the issuance of state identification cards, subject
to an amendment to cover costs.  The Department of Transportation
provided testimony in support of the intent of this bill. 

     Your Committee finds that a designation on a driver's
license or a state identification that the individual has
executed an advance health care directive will assist health care
facility staff to ascertain patients' treatment wishes in
emergency situations.  Your Committee further finds that this
measure will foster public awareness of advance directives.
 
     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 
 
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     (1)  changing the term "motor vehicle license" to "driver's
          license";

     (2)  including the word "decisions" in the term "durable
          power of attorney for health care decisions";

     (3)  including a $6,000 appropriation out of the state
          identification revolving fund to be expended by the
          department of the attorney general; and

     (4)  making technical, non-substantive changes for clarity.
 
     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 S.B. No. 2863, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 2863, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the
Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair