Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 40, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to ensure the availability of health care for children at all times by giving a minor's caregiver the right to consent to health care services for the minor if the caregiver possesses and presents an affidavit of caregiver consent.

The Department of Human Services, Kokua Council, Policy Advisory Board for Elderly Affairs, Blueprint for Change, Hawaii Pacific Health, Na Tutu - Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Coalition, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style and to conform to drafting convention.

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 S.B. No. 40, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 40, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.