STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2527

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2061
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2061, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
     AND EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require the Director of Human
Resources Development to maintain and examine state personnel
records to ascertain the existence of any gender-based
discrimination in relevant occupational categories.

     Furthermore, this bill establishes a four-year task force to
review a 1995 wage equity study.

     Your Committee finds that this measure is necessary to
discover any trends of gender-based discrimination within the
ranks of state government.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2061, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.


 
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                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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