Bill Text: HI HB241 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating To Discrimination.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-01-27 - Referred to LAT, JHA, FIN, referral sheet 1 [HB241 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2021-HB241-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	241
THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2021
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to discrimination.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  Section 378-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:

     ""Invasive medical test" means a medical test or screening that:

     (1)  Involves puncturing or incising an individual's skin or inserting a foreign material into an individual's body; or

     (2)  Requires an individual to provide samples of bodily fluids, bodily tissue, or genetic material.

"Invasive medical test" does not include any medical testing or screening that is required by federal or state law; intended to screen for the illegal use of drugs, except for the use of marijuana; or is necessary for the individual's employer to comply with workplace safety standards issued under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, P.L. 91-596."

     SECTION 2.  Section 489-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:

     ""Invasive medical test" means a medical test or screening that:

     (1)  Involves puncturing or incising an individual's skin or inserting a foreign material into an individual's body; or

     (2)  Requires an individual to provide samples of bodily fluids, bodily tissue, or genetic material.

"Invasive medical test" does not include any medical testing or screening that is required by federal or state law."

     SECTION 3.  Section 378-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice:

     (1)  Because of race, sex including gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion, color, ancestry, disability, marital status, arrest and court record, reproductive health decision, invasive medical test status, vaccination status, or domestic or sexual violence victim status if the domestic or sexual violence victim provides notice to the victim's employer of [such] the employee's status or the employer has actual knowledge of [such] the employee's status:

          (A)  For any employer to refuse to hire or employ or to bar or discharge from employment, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual in compensation or in the terms, conditions, or privileges of employment;

          (B)  For any employment agency to fail or refuse to refer for employment, or to classify or otherwise to discriminate against, any individual;

          (C)  For any employer or employment agency to print, circulate, or cause to be printed or circulated any statement, advertisement, or publication or to use any form of application for employment or to make any inquiry in connection with prospective employment, that expresses, directly or indirectly, any limitation, specification, or discrimination;

          (D)  For any labor organization to exclude or expel from its membership any individual or to discriminate in any way against any of its members, employer, or employees; or

          (E)  For any employer or labor organization to refuse to enter into an apprenticeship agreement as defined in section 372-2; provided that no apprentice shall be younger than sixteen years of age;

     (2)  For any employer, labor organization, or employment agency to discharge, expel, or otherwise discriminate against any individual because the individual has opposed any practice forbidden by this part or has filed a complaint, testified, or assisted in any proceeding respecting the discriminatory practices prohibited under this part;

     (3)  For any person, whether an employer, employee, or not, to aid, abet, incite, compel, or coerce the doing of any of the discriminatory practices forbidden by this part, or to attempt to do so;

     (4)  For any employer to violate the provisions of section 121-43 relating to nonforfeiture for absence by members of the national guard;

     (5)  For any employer to refuse to hire or employ or to bar or discharge from employment any individual because of assignment of income for the purpose of satisfying the individual's child support obligations as provided for under section 571-52;

     (6)  For any employer, labor organization, or employment agency to exclude or otherwise deny equal jobs or benefits to a qualified individual because of the known disability of an individual with whom the qualified individual is known to have a relationship or association;

     (7)  For any employer or labor organization to refuse to hire or employ, bar or discharge from employment, withhold pay from, demote, or penalize a lactating employee because the employee breastfeeds or expresses milk at the workplace.  For purposes of this paragraph, the term "breastfeeds" means the feeding of a child directly from the breast;

     (8)  For any employer to refuse to hire or employ, bar or discharge from employment, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual in compensation or in the terms, conditions, or privileges of employment of any individual because of the individual's credit history or credit report, unless the information in the individual's credit history or credit report directly relates to a bona fide occupational qualification under section 378-3(2); or

     (9)  For any employer to discriminate against any individual employed as a domestic, in compensation or in terms, conditions, or privileges of employment because of the individual's race, sex including gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion, color, ancestry, disability, marital status, [or] reproductive health decision[.], invasive medical test status, or vaccination status."

     SECTION 4.  Section 489-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§489-3  Discriminatory practices prohibition.  Unfair discriminatory practices that deny, or attempt to deny, a person the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations of a place of public accommodation on the basis of race; sex, including gender identity or expression; sexual orientation; color; religion; ancestry; invasive medical test status; vaccination status; or disability, including the use of a service animal, are prohibited."

     SECTION 5.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 6.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

 

 

Report Title:

Discrimination; Invasive Medical Tests; Vaccinations; Prohibition

 

Description:

Prohibits certain discriminatory practices based on an individual's invasive medical test status or vaccination status.

 

 

 

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