STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2569

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2664

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2664 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to codify goal three of the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, regarding good health and well-being.

 

     Specifically, this measure establishes the following goals to be achieved by the year 2030:

 

(1)  Reducing maternal mortality, premature mortality, deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents, deaths and illness from pollution, and tobacco use;

 

(2)  Ending various disease epidemics and preventable deaths of newborns and children under five years of age;

 

(3)  Strengthening the prevention and treatment of substance abuse;

 

(4)  Ensuring access to sexual and reproductive health care services;

 

(5)  Achieving universal health care coverage;

 

(6)  Increasing health financing; and

 

(7)  Strengthening the capacity of the counties to provide early warning of health risks.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services, the Office of Planning, Hawaii Green Growth, OCC Legislative Priorities, the Oahu Economic Development Board, and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that codification of goal three of the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals will establish a framework for the State to effectively address key challenges faced by Hawaii.  This measure also builds on Hawaii's adoption of the Paris Agreement made by Act 32, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017.

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2664, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2664, S.D. 1.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair