Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on International Affairs, to which was referred H.R. No. 148 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this Resolution is to urge the State of Hawaii to adopt the contents and mandates of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The Representative from the Eighteenth State House District spoke in strong support of the measure.

Your Committee has amended this Resolution by inserting another resolution clause urging the President to request Congress to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on International Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.R. No. 148, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Judiciary in the form attached hereto as H.R. No. 148, H.D. 1.