Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2261 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to improve the ability of law enforcement officers to conduct thorough criminal investigations by allowing law enforcement officers to inspect and receive certified copies of public health statistics records.

The Department of the Attorney General supported this bill.

Your Committees find that it is important that our law enforcement officers not be hampered in the performance of their duties and should be given the tools they need to ensure our public health and safety.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Public Safety & Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2261, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2261, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.