STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1192-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.C.R. No. 65

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 65 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO PERFORM A SUNRISE ANALYSIS OF THE REGULATION OF CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL MIDWIVES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Auditor to perform a sunrise analysis of the proposed regulation of the profession of certified professional midwives and submit a report of findings of the sunrise analysis to the Legislature prior to the 2017 Regular Session.

Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii, Midwives Alliance of Hawaii, Kona Birth and Midwifery Services, GoMidwife, and numerous individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs commented on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 65, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 65, H.D. 1.

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

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair