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 S.B. No. 205 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this short form measure is to amend the law relating to employment.

Your Committee finds that in order to promote parental involvement in the lives of children, public employees should be afforded the benefit of paid leave for personal matters relating to the health and education of children. Paid leave will provide parents with the opportunity to more actively participate in their children's lives while fostering family and child development. Accordingly, your Committee has amended the measure by inserting provisions:

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 action to report out S.B. No. 205 as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 205, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Labor, for further consideration.