STAND. COM. REP. NO.301-02
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2002
RE: H.B. No. 2503
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2002
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2503 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VITAL STATISTICS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to allow the Department of Health (DOH) to administer the death registration and disinterment permit process more efficiently and quickly by authorizing DOH to:
(1) Charge a $20 fee for the issuance of a burial-transit permit that allows burial or other disposition of a dead body;
(2) Increase from $5 to $20, the fee for a disinterment permit to expose, disturb, or remove the remains of a dead body from its place of burial; and
(3) Deposit half of the fees collected into the Vital Statistics Improvement Special Fund to computerize the death registration and disinterment permit process, with the remainder to be deposited into the general fund.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill from the DOH.
Your Committee finds that the initial phase of converting the death registration and disinterment permit process is already taking place. This bill will eliminate the need for in-person or mail-in requests and permit issuance, reduce governmental costs, and increase convenience and availability of permits to the public.
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. 2503 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,
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____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair |
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