STAND. COM. REP. 166

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 136

 

 

 

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 H.B. No. 136 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICALLY ACCURATE SEX EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to reduce unintended teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease rates by ensuring that information provided in state-funded sex education, family planning, and pregnancy counseling is medically accurate.

The Department of Education; Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women; American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii; Planned Parenthood of Hawaii; Hawaii Teen Pregnancy, Parenting and Prevention Council; First Unitarian Church; Community Alliance on Prisons; and several concerned citizens testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee recognizes the importance of medically accurate sex education in the State's efforts to improve public health. Your Committee believes that requiring medically accurate information in state-funded sex education programs will help to ensure the health and safety of Hawaii's youth.

 

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 H.B. No. 136 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Education.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

 

____________________________

DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair