STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3359

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2171
                                        H.D. 1
                                        S.D. 2




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B.
No. 2171, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEAL BREAKS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require employers to provide
their employees with an unpaid thirty-minute meal break for every
five hours of work.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by limiting the right
of a thirty-minute meal break for every five hours of work to
employees who express breastmilk during any meal period or other
break period.

     Your Committee finds that it is particularly important for
the health of their newborn children that employees expressing
breastmilk be given an adequate period of time in a work day to
tend to the nutritional needs of their newborns.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
2171, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it

 
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pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2171,
H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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