STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1253

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   S.B. No. 931

      S.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 931, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EPIDEMIOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide the Department of Health (DOH) with the powers necessary to ensure the health and safety of the general public when there is reasonable cause for an investigation of a disease or series of injuries deemed by DOH to threaten the public health or safety by authorizing select DOH staff to enter onto any premises, public or private, to secure or collect any plant, animal, food, or environmental samples deemed necessary to successfully conduct an investigation.

     DOH supported this bill.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 931, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

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

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair