STAND. COM. REP. NO.  392

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 1402

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1402 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a shared leave program within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations that allows state employees to donate accumulated sick leave and vacation leave credits to a shared leave bank or to another state employee who has a serious personal illness or injury or who has a family member who has a serious personal illness or injury.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142, United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646 AFL-CIO, and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and one concerned individual provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     Should the Committee on Judiciary deliberate on this measure further, your Committee on Labor & Public Employment respectfully requests that it consider using the Department of Human Resources Development as the implementing agency.

     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. 1402, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1402, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

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

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AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair