Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 31 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the U.S. Congress to support the Title IX, Patsy Takemoto Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, the Department of Education, and two individuals.

Your Committee finds that Patsy Takemoto Mink was a woman of unrivaled stature, both within our State and the nation, who chose to accept the challenges faced by women of color in the mid-twentieth century. Due to Mrs. Mink's experiences with discrimination in our country, as a congresswoman she was committed to establishing a national policy that supported equal access to educational opportunities for all women. Mrs. Mink was successful, and over twenty-five years later, many thousands of women have benefited from the equal educational opportunities provided through the Title IX Education Act, recently renamed by the U.S. Congress as the Patsy Takemoto Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 31, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 31, S.D. 1.