HI SCR99

Ratifies House Joint Resolution 184 (proposed in 1924) as an amendment to the U.S. Constitution giving Congress power to limit, regulate, and prohibit labor of persons under eighteen years of age.

Proposed amendment would grant Congress authority to regulate child labor and allow states' laws to be suspended only to the extent necessary to implement federal child labor legislation.

Amendment has stalled since 1925 with only 28 states ratified as of 1937; ten additional state ratifications are needed to reach the three-fourths threshold required for constitutional amendment.

Hawaii is one of seven states with no record of taking action on this proposed amendment; fifteen other states have rejected it.

Requires certified copies of the resolution be transmitted to the Archivist of the United States, congressional leadership, Hawaii's congressional delegation, and the state Director of Labor and Industrial Relations.