STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1243-12
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2012
RE: S.B. No. 3039
S.D. 1
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. 3039, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ANATOMICAL TRANSPLANTS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure, as received by your Committee, is to:
(1) Prohibit a health care facility or health care provider from discriminating against a person who has human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), or AIDS-related complex (ARC) and who is in need of an organ transplantation by refusing to perform the organ transplantation; and
(2) Specify that persons with HIV, AIDS, or ARC shall not be prohibited from receiving an anatomical gift.
Upon consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its substance and inserting new provisions, the purpose of which is to require the Department of Health to submit a report to the Legislature no later than 20 days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2013 on the total number of individuals and the number of persons with HIV, AIDS, and ARC, who have received organ transplants from a medical facility or center in the State since 2009, including kidney and liver transplants.
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. 3039, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3039, S.D. 1, 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 |
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