STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1121-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: S.B. No. 2506

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2506 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS PROTECTION COMMITTEE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Abolish the Reproductive Rights Protection (RRP) Committee; and

(2) Provide for a resource list of advisors to assist the Family Court, as needed, on sterilization issues relating to incapacitated adults.

The Disability and Communication Access Board, Judiciary, and State Council on Developmental Disabilities supported this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Repealing the reference to the RRP Committee in section 560:5-612, Hawaii Revised Statutes;

(2) Inserting a savings clause; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

 

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2506, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2506, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair