STAND. COM. REP. 3014

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 1780

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Labor and Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1780, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to limit the amount of paid leave for an employee to attend a mutually-scheduled parent-teacher conference to two hours per conference.

This measure also clarifies that an employee may attend a mutually-scheduled parent-teacher conference for any child from kindergarten to twelfth grade, irrespective of that child's age.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Education, the Department of Human Resources Development, the Department of Human Resources for the City and County of Honolulu, and the Hawaii State Teachers Association.

Your Committees find that in order to promote parental involvement in the lives of their children, the Legislature, in 2003, enacted legislation that required public employees to be eligible for paid leave to attend parent-teacher or parent-caregiver conferences. Your Committees further find that this paid leave provides parents with the opportunity to more actively participate in their children's lives while fostering family and child development. However, your Committees determine that further clarification is necessary to ensure that the utilization of paid leave under this section is not abused, and to provide paid leave that applies to parent-teacher conferences for all students, from kindergarten through twelfth grade, regardless of their age, in addition to parent-caregiver conferences for preschool-aged children.

Accordingly, your Committees have amended this measure by changing the effective date of the Act from July 1, 2010, to be effective upon its approval.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor and Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1780, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1780, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Labor and Education,

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair

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BRIAN KANNO, Chair