Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal the public health statistics registration districts.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Health (DOH).

According to testimony of the DOH, this measure converts the registration of vital events such as birth, death, and marriage occurring within the State from a decentralized, intermediated process to a centralized, direct process. Current registration involves a paper process with filings made in the county statistics registration district office. The neighbor island offices then forward the paperwork to Honolulu. The DOH is converting to an electronic process with direct filings to a centralized site, thereby eliminating the necessity for registration districts.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment.

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, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1357, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.