STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2646

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

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




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2621, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to require health care
facilities to report all incidences of fireworks injuries and
fatalities to the Department of Health (DOH).

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the DOH, Honolulu Police Department, and Legislative
Information Services of Hawaii.

     This measure is an effort to obtain reliable and accurate
statistics on the scope and magnitude of the fireworks issue.
Much of the debate in this legislature is absent any veritable
statistics on injuries and deaths caused by fireworks.  Official
reports by police and ambulance are only a fraction of the cases,
since people may seek treatment by themselves at health care
facilities.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental 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, and recommends that
it pass Third Reading.


 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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