STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2048

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: S.B. No. 2620

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2620 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AVAILABILITY OF MEDICAL RECORDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to include an adult grandchild as person who may obtain a deceased person's medical records.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from one individual.

Your Committee finds it appropriate to allow an adult grandchild to obtain a deceased grandparent's medical records. Families have multiple ways of interacting with each other and often grandparents have special parent-child relationships with their grandchildren, such as in the traditional Hawaiian hanai relationship, where the grandparents raise their grandchildren. It therefore is appropriate to allow grandchildren access to this information.

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. 2620 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

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

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair