Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2379 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to amend sections of the Hawaii Rules of Evidence regarding the admissibility of testimony to conform these sections with their federal counterparts.

The Department of the Attorney General, Hawaii Pacific Health, and three concerned individuals testified in support of this bill. The Judiciary, Office of the Public Defender, and Consumer Lawyers of Hawaii opposed this measure.

Your Committee finds that this bill inspires broadly divergent opinions and merits further discussion.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2379, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2379, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.