STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1709_______

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 605
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred S.B. No. 605, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CIVIL RIGHTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to establish a temporary pilot
program to compile, track, and analyze hate crimes data in the
State of Hawaii.

     Your Committee received testimony from the Department of the
Attorney General, Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, Hawaii State
Commission on the Status of Women, American Civil Liberties Union
of Hawaii, American Friends Service Committee, Parents, Friends,
and Families of Lesbians and Gays, Japanese American Citizens
League, Filipino Coalition for Solidarity, Inc., Gay and Lesbian
Education and Advocacy Foundation, Gay and Lesbian Community
Center, State of Hawaii County Police Chiefs, Honolulu Police
Department, Christian Voice of Hawaii, Hawaii Christian
Coalition, Pro-Family Hawaii, American Muslim Alliance - Hawaii,
True World Group of Hawaii, World Fisheries of Hawaii, Office of
the Public Defender and numerous individuals.

     Your Committee finds a need to gather and analyze data on
crimes and threats against persons because of their race,
religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity or disability.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 
 
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     (1)  Deleting the findings and purpose section;

     (2)  Inserting a provision defining "hate crime"; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 605, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto
as S.B. No. 605, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary &
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



                                   ______________________________
                                   PAUL T. OSHIRO, Chair