STAND. COM. REP. NO. 629-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2774
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred H.B. No. 2774 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DISCRIMINATION IN PUBLIC
     PLACES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to recognize and support
mothers' rights to breastfeed children in places of public
accomodation.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Department of Health, Commission on the Status of Women, Hawaii
Civil Rights Commission, Kapiolani Medical Center for Women &
Children, American Academy of Pediatrics, Hawaii Chapter,
American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, Kauai Medical Clinic,
Kokua Kalihi Valley, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, Hawaii Women
Lawyers, Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii,
Hawaii Mother's Milk, Inc., and many concerned individuals.

     Your Committee finds that breastfeeding is a natural and
beneficial experience for mothers and their infants, which should
be allowed in places of public accomodation.

     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 H.B. No. 2774 and recommends that it pass Third
Reading.

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



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                                   ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair