STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2245

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2221

       S.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 S.B. No. 2221 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 tanning facilities and operators to allow use of tanning equipment by anyone under the age of eighteen; and

     (2)  Require all tanning facilities and operators to provide written notice, post warning signs, and meet certain requirements relating to the safe operation of tanning equipment.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, AIM at Melanoma, American Cancer Society, American Academy of Dermatology Association, and six individuals.

     Your Committees find that the World Health Organization labeled ultraviolet (UV) radiation from tanning devices as carcinogenic to humans.  Your Committees further find that research indicates that tanning before the age of thirty-five increases the risk of melanoma by fifty-nine percent. 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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 S.B. No. 2221, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2221, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on 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