STAND. COM. REP. NO.  414

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 410

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 410 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO JURY DUTY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to create an exemption from service as a juror for breastfeeding mothers.

The Judiciary; Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women; Breastfeeding Hawaii; The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; American Academy of Pediatrics, Hawaii; Good Beginnings Alliance; Hawaii Women's Coalition; and Planned Parenthood of Hawaii offered testimony in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Limiting the exemption from jury duty for a breastfeeding mother to two years or the time the mother stops breastfeeding, whichever occurs first;

     (2)  Specifying that a breastfeeding mother may claim the exemption for each child that the mother breastfeeds; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style. 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 410, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 410, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair