STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3363

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.C.R. No. 21

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 21 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ENDORSING AND ADOPTING, AND URGING THE SEVERAL COUNTIES TO ENDORSE AND USE, THE UNITED NATIONS SEVENTEEN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS AS COMPONENTS OF A FRAMEWORK FOR ADDRESSING AND ASSESSING HAWAII'S EFFORTS TOWARD SOCIAL JUSTICE AND SUSTAINABILITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to endorse and adopt the United Nations' seventeen development goals.

More specifically, this measure:

(1) Engages, endorses, accepts, and adopts the United Nations' seventeen sustainable development goals at the state level; and

(2) Urges the county councils to endorse and use the sustainable development goals.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai`i, Sierra Club of Hawaii, and Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii.

Your Committee believes that adopting the United Nations' seventeen sustainable development goals will help the State to improve sustainability. Your Committee further believes that the individual counties would also benefit from endorsing these sustainable development goals.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 21 and recommends its adoption.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair