STAND. COM. REP. 2391
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2004
RE: S.B. No. 2779
S.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2004
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2779 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRADITIONAL HAWAIIAN HEALING PRACTICES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to clarify the law on traditional Hawaiian healing practices.
This measure:
(1) Makes the Kupuna Council an independent entity for purposes of the law on traditional Hawaiian healing practices; and
(2) Authorizes any individual regardless of race or ethnic origin to be certified by the Kupuna Council as a traditional native Hawaiian healer.
Testimony in support of this measure was received from Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, and Papa Ola Lokahi.
Your Committee finds that this measure is needed in order to preserve traditional Hawaiian healing practices and to update the law.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the Kupuna Council to the Elders' Council; and
(2) Removing references to the term 'native.'
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 S.B. No. 2779, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2779, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,
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____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair |
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