STAND. COM. REP. NO. 590-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: H.B. No. 2060

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2060, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to reduce unintended teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease (STD) rates by requiring state and federally funded providers of sex information to provide teenagers with a comprehensive understanding of sex information that is:

(1) Medically accurate; and

(2) Inclusive of both abstinence and contraception as methods for pregnancy and STD prevention.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, Community Alliance on Prisons, Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii, Planned Parenthood of Hawaii, and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill. The Department of Health and Hawaii Right to Life opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Prohibiting sex information providers from providing factual information that is not medically accurate;

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2096, to promote further discussion; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

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 H.B. No. 2060, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2060, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair