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. 2472, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of the bill is to allow the continued sale of syringes for the prevention of disease by making permanent the provisions of Act 292, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001 (SLH 2001).

The Department of Health, Harm Reduction Hawaii, Maui AIDS Foundation, CHOW Project, Life Foundation, Gregory House Programs, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc., and Hepatitis Prevention, Education, Treatment and Support Network of Hawaii, and two concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that this measure will keep in effect a law that helps prevent the transmission of blood-borne diseases.

Your Committee has amended the 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. 2472, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2472, H.D. 2.