Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2058 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to abolish the reproductive rights protection committee and to provide for a resource list of ad hoc panel advisors to assist family court regarding the reproductive rights of incapacitated adults.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from The Judiciary, the State Council on Developmental Disabilities, and the Disability and Communication Access Board.

Your Committees find that the reproductive rights protection committee has remained inactive for the past eight years due to lack of referrals. Therefore, the committee should be abolished and replaced with a more efficient resource list of ad hoc advisors to serve when needed. Your Committees note that the abolition of the Reproductive Rights Protection Committee would not repeal the rights of an incapacitated adult.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2058, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.