STAND. COM. REP. NO.  102-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2641

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Human Services and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2641 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require:

 

     (1)  The Department of Human Services to create a domestic violence call sheet that includes a domestic violence legal hotline number, domestic violence shelter hotline number, and other relevant resources for victims of domestic violence;

 

     (2)  The Department of Human Services and Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to make an electronic version of the call sheet available on their websites; and

 

     (3)  All employers to post the call sheet in the workplace.

 

     The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations; American Association of University Women, Hawaii; and an individual supported this measure.  The Department of Human Services provided comments.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2641, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2641, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair

 

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DEE MORIKAWA, Chair