Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 10 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to create a temporary interdepartmental working group within the Department of Health to develop a means for statewide dissemination of information on emergency contraception information.

The Hawaii Medical Association supported this concurrent resolution. The Department of Health opposed this measure. The Judiciary provided comments.

Your Committee finds that a working group within the Department of Health was formed in 1998 and began efforts to increase and support public and professional awareness of emergency contraceptives. This working group became an interagency emergency working group in 2002 with the assistance of the Healthy Mothers Healthy Baby Coalition of Hawaii and a grant from Advocates for Youth. The Emergency Contraception Interagency Work Group (Interagency Work Group), is currently concentrating on the areas of policy, training, access, and awareness.

As such, this concurrent resolution is amended to formalize the existing working group, and to request that the Interagency Work Group adopt the tasks of this concurrent resolution.

Specifically, your Committee has amended this concurrent resolution by:

(1) Changing the title to:

(4) Eliminating the sunset date of June 30, 2005.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 10, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 10, H.D. 1.