Bill Text: HI HCR155 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Human Rights State

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-12 - (S) Referred to JDL. [HCR155 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HCR155-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1519-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.C.R. No. 155

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 155 entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING HAWAII AS A HUMAN RIGHTS STATE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to promote the principles enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which guarantees the fundamental rights of all people, by recognizing Hawaii as a Human Rights State.

 

     The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii and one concerned individual testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 155, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 155, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair