STAND

STAND. COM. REP. 1671

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.C.R. No. 130

S.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 130, S.D. 1, entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING AN AWARDS PROGRAM TO RECOGNIZE BUSINESSES WITH PARENT-FRIENDLY POLICIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this Concurrent Resolution is to establish an awards program to recognize businesses with "parent-friendly" policies.

"Parent-friendly" refers to employment policies that recognize and assist employees who are parents of small children.

Parent-friendly policies include:

(1) Providing employee-parents with information and referral services to appropriate community resources and agencies;

(2) Sponsoring parenting/childcare seminars for employees on work time;

(3) Offering flex-time, job-sharing, and part-time employment options;

(4) Allowing employees to use sick leave to care for a sick child at home;

(5) Providing paid time-off for parents to attend to matters involving the education or health of their children;

(6) Providing financial assistance through dependent care spending assistance plans, flexible benefit plans, child care vouchers, or a child care vendor plan;

(7) Creating and supporting childcare, sick-childcare, night/weekend childcare, or holiday/school break/respite care services; and

(8) Offering breastfeeding support policies in the workplace.

The awards program under this Concurrent Resolution would be developed, coordinated, and implemented by the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives and their designees.

Your Committee finds that the awards program will encourage parent-friendly policies and benefit both employee-parents and employers, by improving job retention and recruitment, increasing employee morale, productivity, motivation, and commitment, and providing cost savings in human resource recruitment and job training.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Legislative Management that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 130, S.D. 1, and recommends its adoption.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Legislative Management,

		____________________________ MICHAEL Y. MAGAOAY, Chair