STAND. COM. REP. NO.543-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 1802

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1802 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVORS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require hospitals and clinics to make emergency contraception kits readily available to sexual assault victims.

An individual submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Sex Abuse Treatment Center submitted testimony in support of the intent of this bill.

Your Committee finds that female sexual assault victims should have easy access to emergency contraceptives. Although sex abuse treatment organizations may regularly assist individuals in obtaining medication, those who may seek direct help from hospitals and clinics should not be impeded.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to January 1, 2003, to allow time to implement the requirement; and

(2) Making a technical amendment to remove the list of primary care clinic providers which is superfluous.

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 H.B. No. 1802, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1802, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

 

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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair