STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1342

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.C.R. No. 221

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Health and Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 221 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO ISSUE CERTIFICATES OF BIRTH, MARRIAGE, DIVORCE, OR DEATH CONTAINING NAMES IN THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE AS ACCURATELY AND TIMELY AS CERTIFICATES CONTAINING NAMES THAT ARE NOT IN THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Department of Health to issue certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death containing names in the Hawaiian language as accurately and within the same time frame as certificates containing names that are not in the Hawaiian language.

The Beneficiary Advocacy and Empowerment Committee of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and an individual supported this measure.  The Department of Health supported the intent of this measure.   

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 221 and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs,

____________________________ FAYE P. HANOHANO, Chair

____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair