STAND. COM. REP. NO.848

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 633

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 633 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FUNERAL ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow county medical examiners and coroners to submit an application for funeral payments under the Department of Human Services' (DHS) funeral payment program on behalf of an unclaimed corpse more than sixty days after the date of death of the deceased.

DHS submitted testimony in support of this bill.

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

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. 633, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 633, H.D. 1.

 

 

 

 

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

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair