STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1938-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 2821

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2821, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MENSTRUAL EQUALITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Require the Department of Education and State Public Charter School Commission to provide menstrual products to all students, free of charge, on all public school and public charter school campuses; and

(2) Appropriate funds to provide the menstrual products.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Taxation, Hawai‘i State Commission on the Status of Women, State Public Charter School Commission, Stonewall Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i, Common Cause Hawaii, Rainbow Family 808, Hawai‘i Children's Action Network Speaks!, American Association of University Women of Hawaii, Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates - Hawai‘i, Hawaii Youth Services Network, Ho‘ola Lahui Hawaii, HawaiiKidsCAN, Papa Ola Lōkahi, Hawaii State Teachers Association, Community Alliance on Prisons, Democratic Party of Hawai‘i Education Caucus, Hawaii Women Lawyers, Ma‘i Movement Hawai‘i, Hawai‘i Section of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, The ‘Ilima Intermediate School Activist Club, Rainbow Royales Gender Sexuality Alliance Club, Kamehameha Schools, Hawai‘i Health & Harm Reduction Center, Hawai‘i Self-Advocacy Advisory Council, Save Medicaid Hawaii, Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii, ‘Ahahui o na Kauka - Association of Native Hawaiian Physicians, Hawai‘i Public Health Institute, Breastfeeding Hawaii, Hawai‘i Diaper Bank, Hawai‘i Women's Coalition, Parents And Children Together, American Civil Liberties Union of Hawai‘i, Alliance for Period Supplies, and numerous individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Education, Department of Budget and Finance, Department of Human Services, and Pono Hawai‘i Initiative.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2022; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2821, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2821, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair