STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2581

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2906
                                        




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor and Environment, to which was
referred S.B. No. 2906 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GARMENT INDUSTRY HOMEWORK,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to repeal the garment
industry homework laws.

     Testimony in favor of this measure was received from the
Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Department of Labor and
Industrial Relations, and the Legislative Information Services of
Hawaii.

     Currently, a certificate issued by the Department of Labor
and Industrial Relations is required if a garment manufacturer
has workers who sew at home.  In the last three years, the
Department has issued only one certificate.  Repeal of this
chapter would not remove minimum wage and overtime protection
currently in place.  Your Committee is in agreement that the
chapter should be repealed as unnecessary regulation.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Labor and Environment that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 2906 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and
be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.


 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Labor and
                                   Environment,



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                                   BOB NAKATA, Chair

 
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