STAND. COM. REP. NO.  675

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 914

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 914, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO OBESITY PREVENTION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to address adult and child obesity in the State.  Among other things, this bill:

(1)  Establishes the Hawaii Interagency Obesity Prevention Council within the Department of Health;

(2)  Requires the Hawaii Interagency Obesity Prevention Council to formulate a ten-year statewide plan to address adult and childhood obesity in Hawaii and advise the Governor on its implementation;

(3)  Establishes additional responsibilities of the Hawaii Interagency Obesity Prevention Council; and

(4)  Appropriates funds out of the Obesity Prevention Special Fund to support child and adult obesity prevention programs.

The Councilmember for District VIII of the City and County of Honolulu, University of Hawaii System, Beneficiary Advocacy Empowerment Committee of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Health and American Heart Association provided comments.  

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 914, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair