STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1138-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1233

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 1233 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LEAVES OF ABSENCE,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require certain private employers to provide paid leaves of absence to employees for organ, bone marrow, or peripheral blood stem cell donations.

 

     Legacy of Life Hawaii supported this measure.  The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii opposed this measure.  The Queen's Medical Center commented on this measure.  

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

(1) In the provision of leave of absence by the private employer to employees for organ, bone marrow, or peripheral blood stem cell donations, deleting the requirement that the leave of absence be paid leave of absence; and

 

(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2114, to facilitate further discussion.

 


     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1233, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1233, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair

 

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair