Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 1038 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ban the addition of chemicals to the public water supply but not additives used to make water safe and potable, such as chlorine.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by more than twenty concerned citizens from around the State. Testimony in opposition of this measure was submitted by the Department of Health.

Your Committee finds that this measure would free Hawaii from periodic threats of mandatory community fluoridation, which have been occurring since the 1950s.

Your Committee has amended the measure as suggested by the Department of Health. The department's concerns with the measure would be assuaged by amending the measure's language to exempt the military, which has a standard practice of providing fluoridated water at its facilities.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1038, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1038, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.