STAND. COM. REP. NO.  40-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2311

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2311 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO REPORTING DEATHS TO STATE AGENCIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to prevent the overpayment of benefits and waste of public funds by extending, for an additional two years, the authority of the Department of Health to disclose personally identifiable information and other confidential data for deceased individuals recorded by the Department of Health to state agencies maintaining official lists of persons and that are prohibited from sharing information from the lists by Federal law.

The Department of Health, Department of Human Services, and Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund testified in support of this measure.  The Grassroot Institute of Hawaii provided comments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2311 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Health.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair