STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2370

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2564

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2564 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to define "confidential witness" and clarify the allowable uses of factual matters obtained by the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission during an investigation.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by one state agency.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that the clarifications provided by this measure will reduce the Commission's expenditure of costly resources and staff time to enforce subpoenas and allow the Commission to use factual evidence obtained through investigations as evidence in addressing discrimination complaints in a timely manner.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2564, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2564, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

 

 

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair