STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 707
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2023
RE: H.B. No. 899
H.D. 1
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2023
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Health & Homelessness, to which was referred H.B. No. 899 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to designate September of every year as Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Month to promote public awareness of the risks of alcohol consumption during pregnancy.
Your Committee finds
that alcohol consumption during pregnancy has been recognized as the leading
preventable cause of birth defects and developmental disorders in the United
States. Your Committee further finds
that as many as forty thousand babies are born in the United States each year
with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, an umbrella term used to describe the
range of often lifelong physical and cognitive deficits that may be experienced
by persons whose mothers drank alcohol during pregnancy.
Your
Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to June 30,
3000, to encourage further discussion.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health & Homelessness that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 899, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 899, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health & Homelessness,
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____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair |
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