STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1200-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: S.B. No. 2664

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health & Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2664, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to codify sustainable development goals based on Goal 3, regarding good health and well-being, of the United Nations' Global Goals into the Hawaii Revised Statutes.

The Office of Planning, Department of Human Services, Department of Transportation, Airport Concessionaires Committee, Hawai‘i Green Growth, Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i, and Oahu Economic Development Board submitted testimony in support of this measure. One concerned individual submitted testimony in opposition to this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting content from S.B. No. 2662 S.D. 2 which adds Goal 1, no poverty, of the United Nations' Global Goals as a sustainable development goal to be codified into the Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), Chapter 226, Hawaii State Planning Act;

(2) Placing Goal 3, good health and well-being, in Chapter 226, HRS, rather than in Chapter 344, HRS, State Environmental Policy;

(3) Changing mandating language to permissive language;

(4) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

(5) Making other technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health & Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2664, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2664, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health & Human Services,

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair