Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 20062006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1975 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to effectuate its title.

H.B. No. 1975 was introduced as a short-form bill, which is sometimes referred to as a "vehicle" bill primarily used to introduce a bill containing only a general idea as to the purpose of the bill without specific details in the long form.

Your Committees have amended the bill to provide the substantive contents of the bill in long form so that a public hearing may be properly held on its substantive contents.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the action to report out H.B. No. 1975, as amended herein, and recommend that it be recommitted to the Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Health, for the purpose of holding a public hearing thereon, in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1975, H.D. 1.