Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1393, H.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to transfer the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women to the Department of Human Services for administrative purposes and modify the appointment process to the Commission.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Kokua Council, the Honolulu County Committee on the Status of Women, and two individuals. Testimony in opposition to the measure was submitted by the Office of the Governor and the Department of Human Services. Two individuals offered comments on the measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making the State Commission on the Status of Women a permanent entity within the Department of Human Services for administrative purposes. Your Committee finds that in light of the mission and goals of the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women it is appropriate to make it permanent and to place it within the Department of Human Services.

In addition, your Committee has amended this measure by:

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. 1393, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1393, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.