STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1003

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   H.B. No. 558

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 558 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE REPEAL OF SECTION 325-15, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to repeal the obsolete statutory requirement that United States citizens and nationals returning to Hawaii after at least five years residence abroad in a region with a high rate of communicable disease submit to a medical examination to screen for tuberculosis.

 

     The Department of Health testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to facilitate further discussion; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 558, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 558, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair