STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1055-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 2840

      S.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 Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2840, S.D. 1, 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 authorize the Department of Health for an additional two years to continue to disclose, including through electronic means, lists of names of persons whose deaths have been recorded by the Department.  The disclosure shall be limited to state agencies that request the information by written agreement, maintain official lists of persons in the ordinary course of the agency's activities, and are prohibited by federal law from sharing information from the lists.

     The Department of Human Services and Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund supported 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 S.B. No. 2840, S.D. 1, 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