STAND. COM. REP. NO.  2

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 29

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 29 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DEAD HUMAN BODIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure the ethical treatment of human body remains by requiring a permit from the Department of Health (DOH) to commercially display dead human bodies.

 

     Several concerned individuals supported this bill.  DOH submitted comments.

 

     Your Committee agrees that safeguards should be instituted to prevent the misuse of human body remains.  However, your committee recognizes DOH's concerns that the establishment of a permitting process to regulate exhibitions containing human body remains may be better placed within an agency such as the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

 

     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. 29 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair