HI SR37

Requests the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women to establish a task force to study missing and murdered Native Hawaiian women and girls.

Task force must identify causes of the problem, current databases and data collection methods, barriers to data collection and information sharing, partnerships to increase reporting, and recommend legislation.

Task force membership includes the Executive Director of the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women (chair), Directors of Health and Human Services, Attorney General, Administrative Director of the Courts, county police chiefs, county status of women committee chairs, and representatives from Papa Ola Lokahi, Sex Abuse Treatment Center, Hale Kipa, Residential Youth Services and Empowerment, Susannah Wesley Community Center, and Hoola Na Pua.

Task force must submit a preliminary report no later than twenty days prior to the 2022 Regular Session and a final report no later than twenty days prior to the 2023 Regular Session.

Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women shall provide administrative support to the task force.