Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1198, H.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to prohibit minors from working in adult entertainment.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations submitted testimony in support of this measure.

This measure also establishes a misdemeanor offense for any person who knowingly violates the Child Labor Law and modifies and clarifies work hour restrictions for minors.

The Hawaii Child Labor Law was enacted with the intent of protecting minors in the workplace and ensuring that they have the opportunity to complete their education and become productive members of society. Your Committee finds that our children are our future and that while they are minors, they require additional protection against exploitation and injury in the workplace. Specifically, minors should be prohibited from working in the adult entertainment industry where exploitation is of the utmost concern, and criminal liability should attach for any and all violations of the Child Labor Law.

Your Committee also finds that minors will be further protected through the clarification of existing law with regard to work hour restrictions. The measure amends current law to reflect the existence of year round school schedules in our public school system, in order to permit students to work extended hours during any school break, not merely the summer break.

Your Committee has amended the measure by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1198, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1198, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.