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. 338, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to ensure that employees are given a reasonable time, at least 30 consecutive minutes, to rest, recover, and take a meal break after working five or more straight hours.

The Hawaii State Teachers Association, ILWU Local 142, Hawaii AFL-CIO, and The Mestizo Association supported this bill. The Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, Hawaii Business League, Oahu Transit Services Inc., and the Department of Transportation Services of the City and County of Honolulu supported the intent of this measure. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR), Society for Human Resource Management, Hawaii Bankers Association, Retail Merchant of Hawaii, Hawaii Shipyards Inc., and The Honolulu Advertiser opposed this bill. The Hawaii Transportation Association and Covanta Energy Group provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity,

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. 338, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 338, H.D. 2.