Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 658, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require hospitals that provide emergency care to sexual assault survivors to provide information about emergency contraception and to offer and administer emergency contraception upon the sexual assault survivor's request.

The Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, Sex Abuse Treatment Center, American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, Planned Parenthood of Hawaii, and the Community Alliance on Prisons testified in support of this measure. The Department of Health and a member of the Hawaii County Council supported this measure with amendments. Hawaii Right to Life, St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii, Seventh-day Adventist Church Hawaii Conference, and several individuals opposed this measure. A concerned citizen submitted comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 658, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 658, S.D. 1, H.D. 3.