STAND

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO.554-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 2224

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2224 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PARENTAL PREFERENCES IN GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS, PROGRAMS, AND SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require each state and county government executive agency to submit an annual report to the Legislature on the effect on each contract, program, or service, of the implementation of the statute directing these agencies to eliminate in government contracts, unfair parental preferences that favor one parent over the other in the raising of children.

The Institute for Family Enrichment, Parents and Children Together, and the Hawaii Coalition for Dads testified in support of this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2224 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

		____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair