Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1357, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to streamline the registration process of births and deaths occurring in the State by allowing adopting a centralized, direct process from the registration of vital events.

The Department of Health (DOH) testified in support of this measure. The Hawaii Funeral Directors Association and Dodo Mortuary, Inc., opposed this measure.

Your Committee finds that currently, the counties must file the paperwork for the registration of vital events with the DOH, located in Honolulu. DOH is in the process of converting the paper-based registration process into an electronic process, which would allow for a faster and more streamlined process that would allow DOH to issue birth, death, and marriage certificates in a more timely fashion.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

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 S.B. No. 1357, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1357,

S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.