STAND. COM. REP. NO.  345-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2535

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health & Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2535 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to

 

     (1)  Prohibit smoking in a motor vehicle in which a person under the age of 18 is present; and

 

     (2)  Require the Department of Health to submit a report to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2020 regarding the enforceability of this measure and coordination of related data collection efforts of the respective law enforcement agencies.

 

     The Department of Health, Hawaii Public Health Institute, Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaii, Hawaii Children's Action Network, and Blue Zones Project supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health & Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2535, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2535, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health & Human Services,

 

 

 

 

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair