STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1283

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.R. No. 111

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Health and Technology and the Arts, to which was referred S.R. No. 111 entitled:

"SENATE RESOLUTION DESIGNATING OCTOBER 2013 AS BRAIN INJURY AWARENESS MONTH,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to designate October 2013 as Brain Injury Awareness Month.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Brain Injury Association of Hawaii.

     Your Committees find that brain injury is a serious, national public health epidemic affecting 5.3 million Americans, with a person sustaining a brain injury every twenty-one seconds.  Each year, at least fifty thousand Americans die and eighty thousand Americans experience the onset of life-long disabilities as a result of sustaining a brain injury.  To raise public awareness of this important issue, your Committees recommend the designation of October 2013 as Brain Injury Awareness Month.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the month to be designated as Brain Injury Awareness Month to March and making conforming amendments; and

     (2)  Changing the title accordingly.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Technology and the Arts that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 111, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 111, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Technology and the Arts,

____________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair

____________________________ JOSH GREEN, Chair