STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1731-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.C.R. No. 132

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 132 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING STATE DEPARTMENTS AND THE SEVERAL COUNTIES TO AFFIRM THE TENETS AND PRINCIPLES FOUND IN THE CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

     (1)  Request that the state departments and counties affirm the tenets and principles found in the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women;

     (2)  Urge the state departments and the counties to work with the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women to develop gender analysis guidelines; and

     (3)  Urge the Department of Human Resources Development and the counties to implement a gender analysis of governmental functions.

The Hawai‘i Civil Rights Commission, Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, American Association of University Women-Hawaii, and one individual testified in support of this measure.  One individual provided comments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 132 and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair