Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Higher Education, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 71 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to express support for a women's health platform that recognizes serious inequities in the health prevention and treatment of women and to call for the elimination of inequities to improve the health status of women in Hawaii.

The Department of Health (DOH) supported the intent of this measure.

Your Committees finds that much can be done to address the complex litany of social, emotional, biological, and environmental issues that confront women. This measure is a first step to improve the health status of women and to assist DOH in strengthening its women's health program.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Higher Education that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 71 and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce.