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HI SCR45

Concurrent Resolution

Status

Introduced

3/7/2023

Primary Sponsor

Joy San Buenaventura

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Origin

Senate

2023 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Urges the Board of Education to develop and enforce non-sex-segregated dress codes for public school formal events such as homecoming and graduation

  • Addresses an east Oahu public high school that maintained sex-segregated dress codes in 2021 and 2022, which prompted a student-written petition

  • Argues that sex-segregated dress codes uphold false notions that sex and gender are identical and enforce negative sex stereotypes

  • Claims existing dress codes may violate Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Act 110 (Hawaii 2018), and the First Amendment's free expression protections

  • Requires transmission of the resolution to the Board of Education Chairperson, Superintendent of Education, State Student Council, and Honolulu Youth Commission for distribution to applicable commissions and neighborhood boards

Legislative Description

Urging The Board Of Education To Develop And Enforce Non-sex-segregated Dress Codes For Public School Formal Events.

Public Schools

Last Action

Referred to EDU.

3/10/2023

Committee Referrals

Education3/10/2023

Full Bill Text

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