Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1898 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to support the DNA registry special fund by providing a sustainable source of funding.

The fund helps pay for collection and analysis of DNA samples taken from persons who are convicted of, or plead guilty or no contest to, any felony offense.

Specifically, this bill increases from $10 to $12 the fee for the first certified copy of birth, marriage, divorce, or death certificates. In addition, this bill deposits $2 of each certificate fee into the DNA registry special fund.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill from the Attorney General, the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, and the Mililani Town Anti-Drug Committee. The Department of Health supports the intent of the bill.

Your Committee finds that depositing a surcharge for the issue of vital statistics certificates will provide a sustainable source of funding for the DNA registry special fund.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill to change the amount of $2 to be deposited into the DNA registry special fund to an unspecified amount for purposes of further discussion.

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 H.B. No. 1898, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1898, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.