STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2074

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2865
                                        




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was
referred S.B. No. 2865 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROPHYLACTICS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to allow the Department of
Health (DOH) to adopt rules and charge fees to regulate the sale
of prophylactics through vending machines and require that they
be stocked with adequately labeled and scientifically approved
devices only.

     This measure also clarifies existing law by deleting the
requirement for a permit from the DOH to vend prophylactics from
a coin-operated machine.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Health.  Testimony in opposition was
received from Pro-Family Hawaii.

     According to testimony of the DOH, this measure is part of a
continuing state effort to reduce the number of unnecessary
permits that businesses are required to obtain.  The DOH states
that the permits have no useful purpose.

     Your Committee expresses the concern raised at the hearing
on this measure that prophylactics should not be placed in
vending machines allowed on secondary public school grounds, as
provided in section 302A-412, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 
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     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 S.B. No. 2865 and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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,



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                                   SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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