STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3181

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.C.R. No. 68

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Economic Development and Technology, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 68 entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE FIRST DAY OF DECEMBER OF EVERY YEAR AS WORLD'S AIDS DAY IN THE STATE OF HAWAII,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to request the Governor to proclaim the first day of December of every year, beginning on December 1, 2010, as World AIDS Day in the State of Hawaii.

 

     No testimony was submitted on this measure.

 

     Your Committees find that HIV/AIDS continues to afflict millions of people around the world.  Within the State of Hawaii thousands of people are infected with HIV/AIDS each year.  Your Committees find that the best defense against the continued spread of HIV/AIDS is more awareness and better education about the transmission, effects, and prevention of HIV/AIDS.  Establishing an annual World AIDS day will increase AIDS education and awareness and will memorialize the millions of people around the world who have already been lost to this disease.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Economic Development and Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 68, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 68, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Economic Development and Technology,

 

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CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair