RATIFYING A PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES GIVING THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES POWER TO LIMIT, REGULATE, AND PROHIBIT THE LABOR OF PERSONS UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE.

SCR 99 is a resolution by the Hawaii Legislature to ratify a proposed constitutional amendment that would give Congress authority to limit, regulate, and prohibit labor for people under 18 years old. This amendment was first proposed in 1924 (House Joint Resolution 184) but has not yet been fully ratified, as only 28 states have approved it out of the required 38. The resolution states Hawaii is one of seven states with no record of taking action on this proposal. Ratifying this amendment would be Hawaii's formal support for a constitutional change that would allow federal regulation of child labor, though it does not create new laws itself. The resolution is procedural, as it only advances the ratification process for a long-standing proposal.