STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1395

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.C.R. No. 35

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 35 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO PROVIDE A PLAN FOR IMPROVING ITS PROCESS FOR FULFILLING VITAL RECORD REQUESTS FROM NEIGHBOR ISLAND RESIDENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Department of Health Office of Health Status Monitoring to improve its process for fulfilling vital record requests.

Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Health.

Your Committee finds that pursuant to the Governor's Third Supplementary Proclamation and Emergency Rules Relating to COVID‑19, requests for vital records pertaining to births, deaths, marriages, and name changes required for identification, nationality, and citizenship have become backlogged in the Office of Health Status Monitoring. This backlog of vital record requests have led to delays in those requestors' registrations for Social Security, burial, probate, and others that require verification of vital records. This measure requests the Office of Health Status Monitoring to improve its fulfilment of vital record requests.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 35, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 35, S.D. 1.

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

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JARRETT KEOHOKALOLE, Chair