STAND. COM. REP. 926

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 739

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 739 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ANATOMICAL GIFTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to make permanent the Organ and Tissue Education Fee and the Hawaii Organ and Tissue Education Special Fund (Special Fund), established in Act 88, Session Laws of Hawaii 1999 (Act 88).

The Organ Donor Center of Hawaii, Hawaii Coalition on Donation, Congress of Visayan Organizations, Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program, and Transplant Association of Hawaii testified in support of this measure. The Department of Health supported the intent of this measure. A concerned individual opposed this measure.

Your Committee finds that the Special Fund established by Act 88 serves an essential function in promoting education and public awareness of organ donation. This measure will allow educational efforts to continue to promote organ and tissue donation to save lives.

 

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. 739 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce.

 

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

 

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DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair