STAND. COM. REP. NO.  144

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1862

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1862 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to protect people with serious skin conditions and for whom exposure to sunlight would pose a danger to their health, as documented by a licensed physician.  Allowing them to use a darker window tint on their vehicles than allowed by law would provide added protection from the sun.

 

     Several concerned individuals supported this bill.  T&T Tinting Specialists, Inc., opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Clarifying that the damaging factor which some people with certain skin conditions need protection from is ultraviolet (UV) rays; and

 

(2)  Allowing family members of a person with a skin condition affected by UV rays to use tinting that may be darker than is currently allowed for greater protection from UV rays.

 


     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 H.B. No. 1862, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1862, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Transportation.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair