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The Governor's Commission on the Status of Women was established by gubernatorial executive order on May 15, 1964. The Fifth Legislature of the State of Hawaiʻi in 1970 passed Senate Bill No. 17 4 - a bill for an act establishing a state commission and county committees on the status of women. On July 2, 1970, Governor John A. Burns signed into law Act 190 creating the Hawaiʻi State Commission on the Status of Women (HSCSW) to be a statewide organization concerned with improving the lives of women in Hawaiʻi. This same act created County Committees on the Status of Women to look into county issues regarding women.

For administrative purposes, the state commission was attached to the Department of Budget and Finance. Act 302 passed by the Tenth State Legislature in 1980 transferred the commission to the Department of Social Services and Housing. In 1987 the department's name was changed to the Department of Human Services. Act 151 passed by the Eighteenth State Legislature in 1995 mandated that the lieutenant governor assume administrative responsibility for the commission.

Chronology:
December 30, 1864 Authority to establish and operate Industrial and Reformatory Schools given to the Board of Education.
March 1865 The first Industrial and Reformatory School is established by Board of Education at Keoneula, Kapalama, Oahu, for boys and girls.
1870 The girls’ department of the Industrial and Reformatory School is discontinued.
1900 Management of the Industrial and Reformatory School is transferred from the Board of Education to the Superintendent of Education.
May 1903 The [boys’] Industrial and Reformatory School is moved to Waialee, Waialua, Oahu.
1904 An Industrial and Reformatory School for girls is established at the old Keoneula site.
1913 The girls’ Industrial and Reformatory School is relocated to Moiliili;
January 1, 1916 Management of the Industrial and Reformatory Schools is transferred from the Superintendent of Public Instruction to the Board of Industrial Schools.
1929 The girls’ Industrial and Reformatory School is relocated to a new facility in Maunawili, Koolaupoko, Oahu.
May 1, 1929 The two schools are formally named the “Waialee Training School for Boys” and the “Maunawili Training School for Girls.”
July 1, 1931 The Maunawili Training School for Girls is renamed the “Kawailoa Training School for Girls.”
July 1, 1939 The Board of Industrial Schools is abolished and the training schools are incorporated into the new Department of Institutions.
September 15, 1950 The boys’ training school is relocated from Waialee to Kawailoa.
1951 Management of academic programs at the training schools is assigned to the Department of Public Instruction. The girls’ program is called “Olomana School.”
May 10, 1951 The boys’ school is named the “Koolau Boys’ Home” and the Kawailoa Training School for Girls is renamed the “Kawailoa Girls’ Home.”
May 28, 1951 The two schools are consolidated into a new Division of Training Schools within the Department of Institutions.
April 2, 1952 An additional boys’ facility is opened on the Big Island and named the “Mauna Loa Forestry Camp.”
September 1953 The academic programs conducted by the Department of Public Instruction are combined into a single co-educational program at Olomana School.
September 30, 1953 The Mauna Loa Forestry Camp is closed.
October 5, 1953 A new boys’ facility, the Molokai Forestry Camp, is opened.
June 5, 1957 The name “industrial and reformatory schools” is replaced in statute by the name “training schools.”
January 19, 1960 As a part of the reorganization of government concurrent with statehood, the Department of Institutions is abolished and the training schools are transferred into the Corrections Division of the new Department of Social Services.
May 17, 1963 The training schools are renamed the “Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility.”
January 31, 1967 The Molokai Forestry Camp is closed.
July 19, 1970 The Department of Social Services is renamed the “Department of Social Services and Housing.”
July 1, 1987 The Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility is transferred from the Department of Social Services and Housing to the newly-created Department of Corrections.
July 1, 1987 The Department of Social Services and Housing is renamed “Department of Human Services.”
June 7, 1989 The Department of Corrections is disestablished and the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility is transferred to the newly created Department of Public Safety.
July 1, 1991 The Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility is transferred from the Department of Public Safety to the newly-created Office of Youth Services, which is attached for administrative purposes to the Department of Human Services.

Health Futures Task Force was created by House Concurrent Resolution No. 119, of the Hawaii State Legislature of 1998.

The Task Force submitted its findings to the 1999 Legislature. The Task Force also created the Subcommittee on Clinical Data Repository to examine the benefits of a state-wide clinical data repository that would standardize data from health insurers.

The Health Insurance Branch was established in the Insurance Division when the division was assigned new representation by Act 127, SLH, 1999.

Helen Kinau Wilder was the granddaughter of Dr. Gerrit P. Judd

Henri Berger was born Heinrich August Wilhelm Berger in Berlin, Germany on August 4, 1844. He became a member of Germany's imperial army band and worked under composer and royal bandmaster of Germany, Johann Strauss, Jr.

Berger arrived in Honolulu in June 1872 at the invitation of King Kamehameha V. In 1877, King Kalākaua appointed Berger to full leadership of the Royal Hawaiian Band. In 1879, Berger became a naturalized citizen of the Kingdom of Hawaii. He would remain bandmaster of the Royal Hawaiian Band for almost 40 years, retiring in 1917.

He died in Honolulu on October 14, 1929, two months after his 85th birthday. His final resting place is the Kawaiaha‘o Church Cemetery.

Henry Alpheus Pierce Carter was born in Honolulu on August 7, 1837 to ship captain Joseph Oliver Carter and Hannah Lord of Massachusetts. H.A.P. Carter worked in the Hawaiian postal service and at the "Pacific Commercial Advertiser" newspaper. At 19 years of age he began work at the shipping business of C. Brewer in which he would later become a partner. In 1874 Carter was appointed as a special diplomatic envoy of the Hawaiian Kingdom, a position in which he served until his death in 1891. In the same year, he was also appointed to the Hawaiian Kingdom Privy Council. In 1876, Carter was named Minister of Foreign Affairs. In 1880, he was named Minister to the Interior. He served in several other government positions including, Bureau of Immigration; Commissioner of Crown Lands; President, Board of Health; Attorney General; and the Chinese Immigration Commission.

1853 Dec. 12 born, Manchester, England.
1882 Arrived Honolulu from San Francisco; employed as bookkeeper and accountant for Grinbaum & Co.
1885 in grocery business with John K. Wilder.
July 15 married Nora Spring, in Honolulu. Six children.
1887 opened an accounting bureau.
1894 appointed deputy postmaster-general; served until 1900.
1900 office manager of Honolulu Brewery.
1902 resumed his own business, an accounting bureau.
1919 Henry F. Davis Audit Co., Ltd., incorporated.
1944 Oct. 5 died, Honolulu.

Henry Enoka Palenapa Kekahuna was born in Hana, Maui on August 6, 1881 and died on April 27, 1969 in Honolulu at the age of 87. He was a Hawaiian researcher who collaborated with Theodore Kelsey, N.B. Emerson, and other researchers.

The Organic Act of 1900 renamed the Marshal of the Hawaiian Islands as the High Sheriff and sustained the existing organization and functions of the police. Act 35 of 1905 (the "County Act") established counties within the Territory of Hawai‘i. The result of Act 39 was the place the island sheriffs within county governments and subordinate to the respective boards of supervisors, rather than to the High Sheriff. Another results was that the High Sheriff ceased concurrently to be the Sheriff of Oahu. The High Sheriff retained responsibility to appoint jailors for Oahu Prison and other territorial-level confinement facilities. At the same time, Act 41 of 1905 established boards of prison inspectors for each
judicial circuit, and made the boards responsible for jails and prisons within their circuits.
The High Sheriff was made responsible to the Board of Prison Inspectors of the First Judicial Circuit for Oahu Prison, and he was potentially responsible to other boards for territorial-level prison facilities in other circuits. The High Sheriff was de facto Warden of Oahu Prison, and he was indexed as such in the Revised Laws of Hawaii, 1925, although he was never designated as such by statute. That situation was changed by Act 17, 1st Special Session, 1932, which created a separate office of Warden of Oahu Prison and removed from the High Sheriff the responsibility for territorial prisons and prisoners. The High Sheriff continued as the Chief of Police of the Territory, responsible for the public peace, the arrest of fugitives, etc., until 1959, when his office was abolished by Act l, 2nd Special Session, 1959 (the "Reorganization Act").