STAND. COM. REP. NO.  502

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   H.B. No. 1114

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 H.B. No. 1114 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INFECTIOUS DISEASE TESTING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow health care providers to test a patient for the human immunodeficiency virus after giving the patient the opportunity to decline the test.

     The Department of Health, Life Foundation, Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii, the Hawaii HIV/AIDS Community Planning Group Steering Committee, Hawaii Medical Association, Gregory House Programs, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.  The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii opposed 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 H.B. No. 1114 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