The Hawaii Women’s Caucus unveiled its 2018 legislative package at a breakfast gathering Wednesday at the Laniakea YWCA.

State Sen. Laura Thielen, a co-convener of the Women’s Caucus, maintains the recent national support for women who have been victims of sexual harassment and assault could help the caucus gain momentum to push its bills forward.

“Sometimes there can be a lower-level pushback when there’s movements like this and people are speaking up,” said Thielen (D, Hawaii Kai-Waimanalo-Kailua). “So I think it’s important that nobody takes things for granted — that we work to pass these measures.”

The package of 15 bills includes the following measures:

>> House Bill 2136 and Senate Bill 2350 would establish a family leave insurance program, and require employers to make contributions into an insurance fund to provide employees with family leave insurance benefits.

>> HB 2132 and SB 2346 would fund a program to provide “substitute legal addresses” for victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking. The substitute addresses would be used in place of real addresses on official documents to help keep the real addresses of survivors confidential.

>> HB 2133 and SB 2347 would allow citizen complaints of domestic abuse of a family or household member to be filed against police officers without notarized or sworn statements.

>> HB 2134 and SB 2348 would create a felony offense of violating the privacy of a minor for anyone who releases pictures or video of a minor who is naked or engaging in a sex act with the intent of harming the minor’s reputation, personal relationships, career or education as an act of revenge. The release of so-called “revenge pornography” would be punishable by up to 10 years in prison, and threatening to release similar images or video for revenge purposes would be punishable by up to a year in jail.

>> HB 2137 and SB 2351 would prohibit prospective employers from requesting or considering a job applicant’s wage or salary history when deciding how much to pay them. It would also prohibit employers from retaliating against employees who disclose their salaries to their co-workers.