STAND. COM. REP. NO.  338

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 939

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 939 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AMENDING IDENTITY OF REGISTRANT'S PARENT ON A BIRTH CERTIFICATE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify that amendments to birth certificates to change or establish the identity of a registrant's parents can be made by the Department of Health only pursuant to a court order or legal establishment of parenthood in accordance with the Uniform Parentage Act and not as a correction to a personal record under the Uniform Information Practices Act.  

The Department of Health, Department of the Attorney General, and Office of Information Practices supported this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 939 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair