SUMMARY

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

PREFACE with footnotes

Chapter 1. with footnotes
Major Legal and Economic Benefits
Extended to Married Opposite-Gender Couples,
But Not to Same-Gender Couples

Chapter 2. with footnotes
Substantial Public Policy Reasons to
Extend or Not to Extend Such Benefits in
Part or in Total to Same-Gender Couples

Chapter 3. with footnotes
Appropriate Action Which May be Taken
by the Legislature to Extend Such
Benefits to Same-Gender Couples

Chapter 4.
Findings and Recommendations

Chapter 5. Minority Opinion
(Part 1 and Part 2, with footnotes 1 and footnotes 2)

Chapter 6. Majority Response to Minority Opinion
with footnotes

APPENDICES (all not presently available online)

A.Act 5, Session Laws of Hawaii 1995

B.List of Hawaii Revised Statutes

C.Invited Guests

D.Suggested Legislation

E.Historical Lessons

F.Collection of References

G.Survey of Public Opinion Polls

H.Written Communications Between Commissioners

I.Selected Testimony

BIBLIOGRAPHY