STAND. COM. REP. NO.313
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: H.B. No. 125
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 125 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BODY PIERCING,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to:
(1) Require minors to inform ear and body piercers of their status as a minor and to provide parental consent for any ear or body piercing; and
(2) Require body piercers to notify their prospective clients of the need for parental consent if the client is a minor and to obtain written parental consent if the client is a minor.
Your Committee recognizes that body piercing is considered a form of art and that people pierce their bodies every day. However, many adolescents receive body piercings without their parents' knowledge and consent. Your Committee also recognizes that body piercing can have negative health ramifications due to the penetration of a needle through skin. For health and safety reasons, your Committee believes that parents should be involved in the decision-making regarding the body piercing of minors.
Testimony in support of this measure was received from a concerned parent.
After careful consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Requiring minors to be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian when receiving a body piercing;
(2) Requiring notarized authorization that allows body piercing if the minor's parent or guardian cannot accompany the minor in person;
(3) Requiring the regulation of body piercers by the Department of Health;
(4) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2003; and
(5) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 125, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 125, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,
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____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair |
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