STAND. COM. REP. NO. 134

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 262

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 262 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VACCINES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to assure sufficient resources to sustain and enhance the State's SARS-CoV-2 virus vaccination goals.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health.

Your Committee finds that appropriations are necessary to sustain and enhance vaccinations for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. However, due to evolving factors, it is not possible to determine exactly much more funds are necessary. Therefore, your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2051, to encourage further discussion.

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 S.B. No. 262, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 262, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

________________________________

JARRETT KEOHOKALOLE, Chair