Bill Text: HI HB2072 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Health; Vital Statistics; Public Health Records

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-07 - (H) The committee(s) on JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB2072 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2072-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  46-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2072

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2072 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to permit the Department of Health to share public health statistics records with state agencies upon authorization of a person with a direct and tangible interest in the record.

 

     The Consumer, Family, & Youth Alliance testified in support of this measure.  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs submitted comments.  The Department of Health and the Department of Human Services opposed this measure.

    

     Your Committee finds that this measure will facilitate inter-agency verification processes, thereby increasing the efficiency of government operations.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

 

     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. 2072, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2072, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair