STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1035

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 1402

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1402, H.D. 1, 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 United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO, Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO, and two individuals testified in support of the measure.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, and Department of Human Resources Development testified in opposition.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Replacing references to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations with references to the Department of Human Resources Development; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1402, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1402, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO, Chair