STAND. COM. REP. NO. 480

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1106

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Madam President:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 1106 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE STATE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate moneys for the Hawaii state commission on the status of women for programming, travel, and office expenses.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill from the Commission on the Status of Women, Kokua Council, the Sex Abuse Treatment Center, and a private individual. 

 

     The Commission on the Status of Women explained that these funds were not included in the Executive budget but would provide funds to continue successful programs such as Women's Health Month which began in 1994, the Oral History Project, Women's History Month, Ready 2 Run to help women understand the political process.  All of these programs are directed at helping women achieve economic self-sufficiency, the Commission's number one priority.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B.


No. 1106 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

 

 

 

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair