STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1281-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2621
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred S.B. No. 2621, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to collect data on fireworks
related injuries by requiring health care facilities to report
all incidents of injuries and fatalities caused by fireworks to
the Department of Health (DOH) and the police department of the
county in which the person was attended or treated.

     Testimony in support of this bill was received from DOH,
Legislative Information Services of Hawaii, and Hawaii Nurses'
Association.

     Your Committee finds that there is no organized method of
reporting fireworks related injuries, and therefore, no reliable
data compilation of fireworks related injuries occurring in
Hawaii.  Your Committee encourages further discussion by the
conference committee of the issue requiring identification of the
type(s) of fireworks which cause any particular injury, and the
reporting of that information to DOH.  Your Committee recognizes
that fireworks related injury reporting might be more meaningful
with the inclusion of identification of the types of fireworks
involved in those incidents. 


 
 
 
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     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical,
nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 2621, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto
as S.B. No. 2621, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary &
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



                                   ______________________________
                                   ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair