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 S.B. No. 1144, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

The Department of Human Services, Hawaii State Teachers Association, Kokua Council, and Hawaii Catholic Conference submitted testimony in support of this bill. The American Friends Service Committee submitted testimony in support of the intent of this bill. The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, Retail Merchants of Hawaii, and National Federation of Independent Business submitted testimony in opposition to this bill. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Hawaii Restaurant Association, Hawaii State AFL-CIO, and ILWU Local 142 submitted comments on this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the tip credit provision from ten percent to eight percent below the minimum wage.

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 S.B. No. 1144, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1144, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.