Committee advances bill to create civil-rights reporting helpline, inserts appropriations and staff
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance SB 2055 with amendments to create a statewide reporting helpline using 2-1-1/Aloha United Way infrastructure, require monthly aggregated reports, and add staff and appropriations; the Civil Rights Commission emphasized the line would be a reporting/referral mechanism rather than a legal advice hotline.
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Chair Karl Rhodes told the Senate Committee on Judiciary that SB 2055 would establish a helpline to collect reports of harms tied to federal deployments and direct data to the Civil Rights Commission and legislature. The committee moved the bill forward with the Civil Rights Commission's recommended edits and placeholder appropriations for a contract with Aloha United Way, website/database work and new staff positions.
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