Bill Text: HI HB1440 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Driver Education Programs; Organ Donation; Designation of Anatomical Gifts

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to HTH/TIA, WAM. [HB1440 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB1440-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  808

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1440

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1440, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DRIVER EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to increase awareness about opportunities for organ and tissue donation by requiring driver education and training programs to include the distribution of information on organ and tissue donation and the possibility of saving lives through organ and tissue donation.

 

     The Councilmember representing District IV of the City and County of Honolulu and a concerned individual supported this measure.  The Department of Education opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee wishes to convey that the intent of this measure is to increase awareness about opportunities for organ and tissue donation through the distribution of handouts.

 

     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. 1440, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair