Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2261 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department of Health to permit law enforcement officers to inspect public health statistics records and issue a certified copy of these records to law enforcement officers.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Attorney General, City and County of Honolulu Police Department, and the County of Hawaii Police Department.

Your Committees find that law enforcement officers need access to public health statistics records in order to investigate crimes effectively and in a timely manner. Thus, it is appropriate to authorize the Department of Health to permit this access to law enforcement officers while protecting the privacy of those records.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2261 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.