STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1426-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2475
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 3




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No.
2475, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GENDER EQUITY IN SPORTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to promote gender equity in high
school athletics.

     The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii Foundation and
the Hawaii State Teachers Association testified in support of the
measure.  The Department of Education and the Hawaii Civil Rights
Commission testified in support of the intent of the bill.  The
Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women testified in
support of the bill with amendments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Allowing the Superintendent of Education
          (Superintendent) and the Advisory Commission on Gender
          Equity in Sports (Commission) the discretion to
          consider factors which may constitute unequal aggregate
          expenditures;

     (2)  Allowing the Superintendent to recommend rules for
          appropriate enforcement mechanisms to ensure equity;
          and


 
 
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     (3)  Allowing the Superintendent the discretion to submit a
          compliance report to the Legislature.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2475, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it
pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2475,
S.D. 1, H.D. 3.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair