STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1405

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.R. No. 115

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Human Services and Transportation and International Affairs and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.R. No. 115 entitled:

 

"SENATE RESOLUTION URGING THE STATE TO ADOPT THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES AND THE UNITED STATES SENATE TO RATIFY THE CONVENTION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to urge the State to adopt the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the United States Senate to ratify the Convention.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the State Council on Developmental Disabilities, United States International Council on Disabilities, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, Hawaii Institute for Human Rights, Community Alliance for Mental Health, and two individuals.

 

     Your Committees find that the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is an international human rights instrument of the United Nations intended to protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilitiesThe Convention has served as the major catalyst in the global movement from viewing persons with disabilities as objects of charity, medical treatment, and social protection toward viewing them as full and equal members of society, with human rights.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting language related to the State adopting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;

 

     (2)  Deleting certain findings and adding new findings about the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Americans with Disabilities Act; and

 

     (3)  Amending the title accordingly; and

 

     (4)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Transportation and International Affairs and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 115, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 115, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Transportation and International Affairs and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

 

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair

 

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair