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. 2047 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to protect Hawaii’s citizens from the dangerous health effects of secondhand smoke by:

The Department of Health, Department of Human Services, Department of Accounting and General Services, Hawaii Medical Services Association, Kaiser Permanente, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists District VIII, Hawaii Section, Coalition for a Tobacco Free Hawaii, American Heart Association, American Lung Association of Hawaii, American Cancer Society, Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies, Life Foundation, Hawaii Association of Health Funds, and numerous concerned individuals supported this bill. The Honolulu Police Department opposed this measure.

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. 2047 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.