STAND. COM. REP. NO.  693

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1489

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1489 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CIVIL RIGHTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to prohibit a state agency or program or activity that receives state financial assistance from excluding from participation, denying benefits to, or discriminating against an otherwise qualified individual by reason of disability, sex, including gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation.

 

     Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii, University of Hawaii at Manoa LGBTQ+ Center, American Association of University Women Windward Oahu, American Association of University Women of Hawaii, Community Alliance on Prisons, LGBT Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, Lambda Law Student Association, CHOW Project, Hawaii Women's Coalition, American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142, and numerous individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Hawaii Civil Rights Commission provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1489, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1489, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

 

 

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AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair