STAND

STAND. COM. REP. 751

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 389

H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 389, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Apply the Family Leave Law to the State, any of its political subdivisions, and any instrumentality of the State or its political subdivisions;

(2) Require an employer who provides sick leave for employees to permit employees to use up to ten days of accrued and available sick leave for family purposes in a single calendar year, except when an applicable collective bargaining agreement authorizes the use of more sick leave for family purposes; and

(3) Clarify that an employer shall not be required to diminish an employee's accrued sick leave below the amount required under the temporary disability insurance law.

The Hawaii Government Employees Association, ILWU Local 142, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and Hawaii State AFL-CIO submitted testimony in support of this bill. The State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers submitted testimony in support of the intent of this bill. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Department of Human Resources Development, Office of Collective Bargaining, Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, Society for Human Resource Management, and the Hawaii Bankers Association submitted testimony in opposition to this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive changes 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. 389, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 389, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

		____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair