STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1022-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2805

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2805, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization to conduct a multiethnic cohort study and develop and maintain a registry regarding the health effects of the 2023 Maui wildfires.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services; Hawaiʻi Public Health Institute; Hawaiʻi Public Health Association; ʻAhahui o nā Kauka; Hawaii Medical Association; American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network; Hawaiʻi Psychological Association; Tagnawa; Roots Reborn; Maui Medic Healers Hui; and numerous individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Health; University of Hawaiʻi System; and Papa Ola Lokahi.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2805, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair