Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1778, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow employers to provide employees with electronic pay statements, upon receipt of authorization from the employee, in lieu of a printed record.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and Verizon Hawaii testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment.

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. 1778, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1778, H.D. 2.