Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2507, H.D. 3, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal the requirement of registering divorces and annulments with the Department of Health.

Your Committee received testimony favoring this measure from the Department of Health.

Your Committee finds that the burden on the Department to register divorces and annulments is excessive and renders the Department less efficient in its overall duties. Additionally, the process duplicates documents kept by the Judiciary.

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 H.B. No. 2507, H.D. 3, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.