Report Title:

Civil Rights Commission, Statute of Limitations

Description:

Eliminates 180 day statute of limitations to file a complaint with the civil rights commission.

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	132
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to the civil rights commission.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Section 368-11, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:

     "(c)  [No] A complaint [shall] may be filed [after the expiration of one hundred eighty days] at any time after the date[:

(1) Upon] upon which the alleged unlawful discriminatory practice occurred[; or

(2) Of the last occurrence in a pattern of ongoing discriminatory practice]."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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