STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1102

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 453

       H.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 453, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE STATE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to ensure equality for women and girls in the state by appropriating funds to the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women for programming, travel and office expenses.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Sex Abuse Treatment Center, the Kokua Council, the Commission on the Status of Women, VOICES, Community Alliance on Prisons, and the University of Hawai`i Women's Center.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B.

No. 453, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair