STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1243

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.R. No. 46

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs and Water and Land, to which was referred S.R. No. 46 entitled:

 

"SENATE RESOLUTION ENDORSING AND ADOPTING, AND URGING THE SEVERAL COUNTIES TO ENDORSE AND USE, THE UNITED NATIONS SEVENTEEN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS AS COMPONENTS OF A FRAMEWORK FOR ADDRESSING AND ASSESSING HAWAII'S EFFORTS TOWARD SOCIAL JUSTICE AND SUSTAINABILITY,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to endorse and adopt the United Nations seventeen sustainable development goals as part of a framework for addressing and assessing Hawaii's efforts toward social justice and sustainability and urge each county to endorse and use the same United Nations sustainable development goals to measure their efforts toward social justice and sustainability.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Institute for Human Rights, IMUAlliance, Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii, United Nations Association, and three individuals.

 

     Your Committees find that promoting social justice and sustainability will help secure the future health, safety, and well-being of the public.  In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 2030 Development Agenda aimed at ending poverty, protecting the planet, and ensuring that all people enjoy peace and prosperity.  The Development Agenda contains seventeen sustainable development goals.  Adopting and adhering to these goals will help to ensure that as the State moves forward, no individuals in the State are left behind.  Therefore, the Legislature pledges to endorse, accept, and adopt the United Nations seventeen sustainable development goals as a framework for addressing and assessing the State’s progress toward sustainability and social justice.  Further, the Legislature urges the county councils to also endorse and use the United Nations seventeen sustainable development goals to measure their efforts toward social justice and sustainability.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs and Water and Land that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 46 and recommend that it be referred to your Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs and Water and Land,

 

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KARL RHOADS, Chair

 

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CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair