STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1186-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   S.B. No. 1500

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1500 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to save lives and improve the quality of life of Hawaii's people who need organ transplantation, and to improve the quality of medical education in Hawaii by ensuring that the proper individuals and entities fulfill their obligation to effectuate anatomical gifts.  Specifically, this measure requires a recipient to accept or reject an anatomical gift if that gift is:

     (1)  Medically suitable for transplantation, therapy, research, or education; and

     (2)  Made pursuant to Hawaii's Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, as amended by this measure, regardless of whether another person, including family members of the donor, has made an anatomical gift.

The Department of Health supported the measure.  The Commission to Promote Uniform Legislation offered comments on the measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

     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. 1500, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1500, H.D. 1, 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