STAND. COM. REP. NO. 978

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 359

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 359 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CAREGIVER CONSENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to ensure the availability of health care for children at all times by giving a minor's caregiver the right to consent to health care services for the minor, if the caregiver possesses and presents an affidavit of caregiver consent.

The Department of Human Services, Kokua Council, Na Tutu, Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Coalition, Policy Advisory Board for Elderly Affairs, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this measure. Hawaii Pacific Health and a concerned individual supported this bill with amendments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

 

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 359, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 359, H.D. 1.

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

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair