STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1417

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 1151
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor and Public Employment, to which was
referred S.B. No. 1151, S.D. 1, entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to add sexual orientation as a
protected status in the laws against discrimination in public
accommodations and real property transactions.  This bill also
adds familial status as a protected status in the anti-
blockbusting law.

     The Hawaii civil Rights Commission, the Hawaii State
Commission on the status of Women, the League of Women Voters of
Hawaii, the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, Lambda
Aloha, the Gay and Lesbian Community Center, the Church of the
Crossroads, the Gay and Lesbian Education and Advocacy Foundation
and members of the public testified in support of the bill.
Christian Voice of Hawaii and the Hawaii Family forum testified
in opposition to the measure.  Members of the public also
commented on the bill.

     In order to preserve this issue for further discussion in
the Judiciary Committee, your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Deleting language that added sexual orientation as a
          protected status in the laws against discrimination in

 
 
 
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          public accommodations, real property transactions and
          blockbusting; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the
          purposes of style and clarity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Labor and Public Employment that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 1151, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No.
1151, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on
Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Labor and Public
                                   Employment,



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                                   TERRY NUI YOSHINAGA, Chair