Bill Text: HI HR12 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requesting Various Appointing Authorities To Dedicate Themselves To Achieve Gender Parity On State Boards And Commissions And Circuit Court.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-10 - Referred to JUD, referral sheet 39 [HR12 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2020-HR12-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.R. NO.	12
THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2020
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

 

requesting various appointing authorities to dedicate themselves to achieve gender parity on state boards and commissions and circuit court.

 

 

     WHEREAS, August 2020 commemorates the one-hundredth anniversary of women getting the right to vote in the United States; and

 

     WHEREAS, since that time, women have made great strides in and contributions to society; and

 

     WHEREAS, despite this progress, women in Hawaii today are woefully underrepresented on Hawaii's major state boards and commissions and as judges, with sixty-three percent of those seats held by men; and

 

     WHEREAS, women are more than qualified to fill these seats, as the Supreme, Appellate, and District Courts are close to equal percentages of men and women; and

 

     WHEREAS, the need is for the various appointing authorities to consciously attempt to correct this imbalance and strive for parity in state governance and policy-making bodies; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Thirtieth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2020, that the various appointing authorities are requested to dedicate themselves to achieve gender parity on state departments, boards, commissions, and Circuit Court judges; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Governor, Chief Justice, President of the Senate, and Speaker of the House of Representatives.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Women's Legislative Caucus; Gender Equity; Boards; Commissions; Circuit Court