STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1231

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.R. No. 57

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Technology and the Arts, to which was referred S.R. No. 57 entitled:

 

"SENATE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER 2013 AS HYDROCEPHALUS AWARENESS DAY IN HAWAII,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to designate one day in September 2013 as Hydrocephalus Awareness Day.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Pediatric Hydrocephalus Foundation.

 

     Your Committees find that Hydrocephalus occurs when excess fluid builds up in the brain, most often because of an obstruction preventing proper fluid drainage.  It is estimated that one out of five hundred babies are born with this incurable condition.  Your Committees also find that the State Co-Directors of the Hawaii Chapter for the Pediatric Hydrocephalus Foundation have led the effort in Hawaii to increase public awareness and information regarding Hydrocephalus in Hawaii.  Your Committees wish to join representatives from the national, regional, state, and local Pediatric Hydrocephalus Foundations, along with leadership of various professional, community, and medical-based organizations, who are dedicated to increasing public awareness of Hydrocephalus and the need for support to more effectively address the effects of the disease and find cures or ways to prevent the disease.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Designating September 21, 2013, as Hydrocephalus Awareness Day in Hawaii and making conforming amendments; and

 

     (2)  Amending the title accordingly.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Technology and the Arts that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 57, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 57, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Technology and the Arts,

 

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair

 

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JOSH GREEN, Chair