STAND. COM. REP. NO. 616

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: H.B. No. 483

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 483, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to extend the deadline for the Legislative Reference Bureau to complete the study on existing federal Title IX enforcement practices and procedures on the federal level and in other jurisdictions for the Legislature.

The Hawai‘i State Commission on the Status of Women, Hawai‘i Civil Rights Commission, The Sex Abuse Treatment Center, American Association of University of Women of Hawaii, LGBT Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii, Hawaii Women's Coalition, League of Women Voters of Hawaii, O‘ahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i, Midwives Alliance of Hawaii, and several individuals testified in support of this measure. The Legislative Reference Bureau and one individual provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting August 1, 2019, as the date by which the Legislative Reference Bureau must make its report to the Legislature.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 483, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 483, H.D. 2.

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

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CHRIS LEE, Chair