STAND. COM. REP. NO.  353-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 1683

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1683 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to expand the allowable leave for employees under the Hawaii Family Leave Law to include leave to care for siblings with a serious health condition.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations; Kapiolani Community College Staff Council; ILWU Local 142; United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO; Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; Hawaii Women's Coalition; Hawaii State AFL-CIO; and numerous individuals supported this measure.  The Hawaii Food Industry Association; Chamber of Commerce Hawaii; and ABC Stores opposed this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2091, to encourage further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1683, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1683, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair