Bill Text: HI SB2565 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Hawaii Civil Rights Commission; Disability Discrimination

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-05-25 - (S) Act 139, 5/25/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 597). [SB2565 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2565-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2501

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2565

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2565 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to extend until December 31, 2011, the deadline for the Hawai‘i Civil Rights Commission to complete its rulemaking process to conform state law protections against disability discrimination to the federal Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from one State agency.  Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure with amendments from one individual.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission is unlikely to finalize its guidelines implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008 prior to July, 2010.  Your Committee further finds that the Hawai‘i Civil Rights Commission will need additional time to analyze those federal guidelines and adopt administrative rules to conform state law protections against disability discrimination to the federal standards.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Extending the deadline for the Hawai‘i Civil Rights Commission to adopt administrative rules conforming state law protections against disability discrimination to the federal standard until six months after the United States Equal Employment Opportunities Commission publishes final rules interpreting the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008 in the Federal Register; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes to ensure clarity and accuracy in the language of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2565, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2565, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

 

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair