Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 205, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to entitle public employees to at least eight hours of paid leave from work per year to attend to personal matters involving the education or health of their minor children.

Furthermore, this measure prohibits public employers from crediting the paid leave against any vacation or sick leave benefits.

Your Committee finds that this measure will strengthen families by promoting parental involvement in the lives of their children. The measure will also promote better morale at work and improve employer-employee relations.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the minimum amount of paid leave from eight hours to four hours per year.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 205, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 205, S.D. 3.