STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1046-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2607
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 2




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 S.B. No. 2607, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS
     OF WOMEN,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill as received is to establish a trust
fund for the Commission on the Status of Women and to update
statutory language relating to the duties and powers of the
Commission on the Status of Women.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
State Commission on the Status of Women, Department of Public
Safety, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Civil
Rights Commission, City and County of Honolulu Department of
Community Services, Department of Human Resources, Hawai`i Women
Lawyers, Parents and Children Together, American Friends Service
Committee, Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence,
University of Hawai`i at Manoa Women's Center, Violence
Prevention Consortium, National Association of Social Workers,
The Hawaii Coalition for Affordable Long Term Care, Sex Abuse
Treatment Center, Family Planning Centers of Hawaii, and several
concerned individuals.  Testimony was also received from the
State Department of Accounting and General Services.

     Your Committee finds that establishment of a private
charitable trust fund will enable the Commission to become

 
 
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financially self-sufficient, thereby alleviating the concerns of
the community regarding the effects of State budget cuts on the
Commission's activities.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the
specific areas of concern to women in Hawaii listed in Section
367-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and deleting the proposed
subsection (9) to Section 367-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes,
allowing the Commission to establish a non-profit organization.

     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. 2607, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the
form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2607, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

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



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                                   ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair