STAND. COM. REP. NO 3061

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 611

       H.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Health and Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 611, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TANNING,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

     (1)  Make it unlawful for a tanning facility owner, lessee, or operator to allow individuals under the age of eighteen to use tanning equipment that tans the skin with electromagnetic radiation; and

     (2)  Make exemptions for physicians duly licensed to practice medicine who use, in the practice of medicine, medical diagnostic and therapeutic equipment that emits ultraviolet radiation, and individuals who own tanning equipment exclusively for personal, noncommercial use.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, Hawaii Dermatological Society, AIM at Melanoma, and several individuals.

     Your Committees find that skin cancer is the most prevalent type of cancer in the United States, and melanoma is one of the most common forms of cancer for young adults.  Your Committees further find that the risk of developing melanoma increases by seventy-five percent in individuals who have been exposed to ultraviolet radiation from indoor tanning devices.  This measure will protect adolescents from the early onset of serious medical conditions related to skin cancer.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Commerce and Consumer Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 611, H.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Commerce and Consumer Protection,

____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair

____________________________ JOSH GREEN, Chair