STAND. COM. REP. NO.  539-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2585

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2585 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to meet the health needs of Hawaii's mothers and babies by exempting mothers who breastfeed or express breast milk from jury duty, provided that the exemption ends when the mother is no longer breastfeeding or expressing breast milk.

Office of Hawaiian Affairs; the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women; Hawaii Women's Coalition; the American Association of University Women, Hawaii; Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii; and two individuals testified in support of this measure. The Judiciary offered comments on this measure.

     Your Committee made revisions to this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2060, to facilitate further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2585, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2585, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

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DEE MORIKAWA, Chair