STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2715

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2607
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2607 entitled:

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS
     OF WOMEN,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to establish a commission on the
status of women trust fund to take effect upon the creation of a
tax-exempt, nonprofit Commission on the Status of Women
Foundation.

     The bill also exempts commission employees from civil
service provisions and updates statutory language relating to the
duties and powers of the commission.

     Your Committee finds that establishment of a private,
charitable trust fund, which can receive private contributions,
provides an excellent means of providing financial support for
the programs of the Commission on the Status of Women and will
assist the commission in becoming more self-sufficient.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Deleting section 5 that contains the transition
          provisions relating to exempting employees from civil
          service provisions; and

 
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     (2)  Renumbering the remaining sections consecutively.

     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 is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2607, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2607, S.D. 1.

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



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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