STAND. COM. REP. NO.811
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: H.B. No. 850
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 850, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SICK LEAVE,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to allow an employee to use any accrued and available sick leave to care for a child, parent, spouse, or reciprocal beneficiary.
The Hawaii State Teachers Association, Hawaii Government Employees Association, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, ILWU Local 142, and Hawaii State AFL-CIO supported this bill. The Department of Human Resources Development commented on this bill. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and the Hawaii Bankers Association opposed this bill.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Limiting the amount of accrued and available sick leave to 10 days per year;
(2) Clarifying that the employee's child, parent, spouse, or reciprocal beneficiary must have a "serious health condition;"
(3) Conforming the definitions of "employee" and "serious health condition" to the definitions set forth in chapter 398, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and
(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and clarity.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 850, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 850, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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