Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor and Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 448 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide persons who are employed in homes as domestics, with the right to file a complaint with the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission under Hawaii's employment discrimination laws when they are subjected to sexual or racial harassment, and other types of employment discrimination.

Testimony in support of this bill was submitted by the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, ILWU, American Friends Service Committee, Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, and National Employment Lawyers Association.

Your Committee finds that this bill will protect some of the most vulnerable members of our community and provide them with the same protection against discrimination enjoyed by all other workers under state law.

Your Committee has amended this measure to allow further discussion, by changing its effective date to July 1, 2020.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor and Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 448, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 448, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.