STAND. COM. REP. NO.  358-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2313

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2313 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE USE OF TOBACCO AND E-CIGARETTES ON HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION PREMISES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to prohibit the use of tobacco and e-cigarettes on premises of health facilities operated by the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.  

 

     The Department of Health, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, American Heart Association, Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaii, and several individuals testified in support of this bill.

 

     Your Committee notes that the use of tobacco is banned at most private hospitals in the State.  It is your Committee's understanding that private hospitals are now developing policies that ban the use of e-cigarettes in their facilities and on their premises.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Deleting the provision in the bill prohibiting the use of tobacco products and e-cigarettes on the premises of all health facilities operated by the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, from the scope of negotiations under collective bargaining;  

 

(2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2313, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2313, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair