Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2506 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to abolish the Reproductive Rights Protection (RRP) Committee and provide for a list of advisors to assist the family court as needed on sterilization issues.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the State Council on Developmental Disabilities, the Judiciary, the Disability and Communication Access Board, and Planned Parenthood of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that the RRP Committee has not met in the past eight years and that the RRP Committee no longer serves its purposes. Your Committee finds that it is appropriate to abolish the RRP Committee and meet the original intent of the RRP Committee by maintaining a resource list to assist the family court as needed on sterilization issues.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2506 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.