Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 758, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Education to adhere to the state minimum wage law when setting wages for meal count assistants, adult supervisors, and classroom cleaners.

Furthermore, this measure removes an obsolete law relating to special minimum wages for learners and apprentices employed by an employer engaged in a seasonal pursuit.

Your Committee finds that this measure is necessary to rectify an apparent conflict in the law. Specifically, this measure protects certain Department of Education employees whose wages would otherwise be subject to reduction by the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations under a law governing special minimum wages for learners and apprentices.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

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 H.B. No. 758, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 758, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.