HI SCR8

Ratifies House Joint Resolution 184 (proposed June 2, 1924), a constitutional amendment giving Congress power to limit, regulate, and prohibit labor of persons under eighteen years of age.

The proposed amendment would allow Congress to regulate child labor directly, overcoming two earlier Supreme Court decisions that struck down federal child labor laws as unconstitutional (Hammer v. Dagenhart in 1918 and Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co. in 1922).

The amendment requires ratification by three-fourths of the states; as of 2022, only 28 states had ratified it by 1937, and 10 additional state ratifications are needed to add it to the Constitution.

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

Directs transmission of certified copies to the U.S. Archivist, U.S. Senate Majority Leader, U.S. House Speaker, Hawaii's congressional delegation, and the State Director of Labor and Industrial Relations.