Bill Text: HI HB2133 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-04-26 - (S) Act 073, 4/25/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1174). [HB2133 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2133-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3180
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: H.B. No. 2133
Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui
President of the Senate
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Human Services and Economic Development and Technology, to which was referred H.B. No. 2133 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to designate the month of October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Hawai‘i Women's Coalition, and nine individuals.
Your Committees find that in 1999, there were eight thousand thirteen reported cases of domestic violence and in 2005, at least five (sixteen percent) of the murders that occurred in Hawaii were related to domestic violence. This measure designates the month of October as "Domestic Violence Awareness Month" to promote public awareness of domestic violence as a significant societal, public health, and criminal justice problem.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Economic Development and Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2133, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Economic Development and Technology,
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____________________________ CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair |
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____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair |
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