STAND. COM. REP. NO.  373

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 1109

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1109 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow an employee with a family member in the United States armed forces who is on active duty or notified of a call to active duty, to use family leave for certain activities that would qualify as an exigency under federal law.

     The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and The Oahu Veterans Council testified in support of this measure.  The State Department of Defense supported the intent of this bill.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1109 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Labor & Public Employment,

____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair

____________________________ HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair