STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1136-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2452

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2452 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO JURY DUTY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to meet the health needs of mothers and babies in the State by exempting breastfeeding mothers from jury duty for a period of not more than one year from the time the mother begins breastfeeding the child until the mother is no longer breastfeeding the child.

 

     The Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women; American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Hawaii Section; Hawaii Women's Coalition; Hawaii Association of Professional Nurses; League of Women Voters Hawaii; Planned Parenthood of Hawaii; Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawaii; Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii; Breastfeeding Hawaii; and an individual supported this measure.  The Judiciary and an individual commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Changing the exemption from jury duty for breastfeeding mothers to a period of one year from the birth of a child; and

 

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2452, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2452, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair