STAND. COM. REP. NO. 801

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 387

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 387, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AFFIRMATIVE CONSENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the University of Hawaii and the Board of Regents to jointly establish and enforce an affirmative consent standard for the evaluation and disposition of all reports relating to sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, Hawaii State Democratic Women's Caucus, Planned Parenthood of Hawaii, The Sex Abuse Treatment Center, and one individual.  Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the University of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that affirmative consent policies adopted at more than eight hundred colleges and universities across the nation have had a positive impact and helped produce changes in campus dialogue about healthy relationships and the need for consent by all parties to sexual activities.

 

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

 

     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. 387, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 387, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair