Bill Text: HI SB844 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Vital Statistics Records; Disclosure

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB844 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB844-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 767

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 844

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 844 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DISCLOSURE OF VITAL STATISTICS RECORDS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to allow for more timely investigation of crimes when public health vital statistics records are needed, while protecting the privacy of the records.

 

     This measure authorizes the Department of Health to permit law enforcement officers, upon request, to inspect public health vital statistics records and for the Department of Health to issue a certified copy of any such record or part thereof to law enforcement, when the records are needed as evidence in a criminal investigation.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Limiting the scope of inspections and records that may be obtained to birth and death certificates;

 

     (2)  Redefining "law enforcement officer" to only include law enforcement officers of the State or county, or subdivisions thereof; and

 

     (3)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to continue the discussions in this matter.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 844, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 844, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

 

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair