STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1226

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 761

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 761, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend references in the Hawaii Revised Statutes by substituting "intellectual disability", or like term, wherever the term "mental retardation", or like term, appears.

     Your Committee finds that Public Law 111-256 changes references from "mental retardation" to "intellectual disabilities" in federal health, education, and labor laws.  Your Committee further finds that this measure will bring language within the Hawaii Revised Statutes in line with language recognized by the federal government.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2011; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 761, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 761, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair