STAND. COM. REP. NO.  616-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 2076

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Energy & Environmental Protection and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2076 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DEPLETED URANIUM,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is protect public health by requiring the Department of Health (DOH) to establish air sampling stations adjacent to and downwind of military facilities in the state where depleted uranium munitions are used.  DOH must also collect data on levels of contamination from depleted uranium.

     The Hawaii County Council, Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, Hawaiian Political Action Council of Hawaii, Life of the Land, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Health and State Department of Defense supported the intent of this measure.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Energy & Environmental Protection and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2076 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Energy & Environmental Protection and Health,

____________________________ HERMINA MORITA, Chair	____________________________ CINDY EVANS, Chair
	____________________________ JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair