STAND. COM. REP. NO.  499-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2318

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. 2318 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RECORDS FOR FORENSIC EXAMINATIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require public agencies to share with the Judiciary upon the Judiciary's request, information pertaining to defendants about whom fitness to proceed or penal responsibility is an issue and for whom forensic examinations are ordered by a court, so that the information, regardless of other laws, can be given in a timely manner to forensic examiners.

The Department of Health, Department of Public Safety, The Queen's Medical Center, and an individual supported this measure.

     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. 2318 and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

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

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair