Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2730 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation to the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, the Honolulu County Committee on the Status of Women, the Hawaii Women's Coalition, the Sex Abuse Treatment Center, TJ Mahoney & Associates, the American Civil Liberties Union, and three individuals.

Your Committee finds that the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women was established in 1964 and that in its forty-two years has been active in ensuring women and girls full and equal coverage under the law. Your Committee notes that the dollar amount to be appropriated should be $50,000, based upon the testimony provided by the Commission on the Status of Women.

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. 2730 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.