STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2767

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2661

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2661, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ANATOMICAL GIFTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to reinforce that any response by a person or persons authorized to amend or revoke a decision to make an anatomical gift that is not an express refusal will prohibit the amendment or revocation of the anatomical gift.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of the intent of this measure with amendments from one individual.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committee finds that Hawaii's low organ donation rate results in unnecessary deaths and expense for desperately ill Hawaii residents.  This measure reinforces that only an express refusal by an authorized person can revoke an anatomical gift post-mortem.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to December 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion of how to encourage anatomical gifts.

     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. 2661, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2661, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair