Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 325 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow an employee to use, for family leave purposes, Temporary Disability Insurance (TDI) sick leave benefits in excess of the minimum statutory TDI benefit requirements.

The Hawaii State Teachers Association, ILWU Local 142, and Hawaii State AFL-CIO supported this bill. The Society of Human Resource Management, Building Industry Association of Hawaii, Hawaii Shipyards Inc., and The Honolulu Advertiser opposed this measure. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and Department of Human Resources Development provided comments on this measure.

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. 325 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.