STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1048-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2061
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor and Public Employment, to which was
referred S.B. No. 2061, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
     AND EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to evaluate gender-based pay
discrimination among state employees and implement policies that
will remedy inequities that exist and prevent inequities from
occurring in the future.  It will accomplish this by:

     (1)  Requiring the Director of Human Resources Development
          (Director) to maintain and examine state personnel
          records to ascertain the existence of any
          discrimination in the wages paid to men and women for
          the same or equivalent jobs; and

     (2)  Establishing a pay equity task force that will:

          (a)  Review any relevant information; and 

          (b)  Make recommendations to the Legislature for funds
               and specific actions that will correct any
               gender-based pay inequities discovered.


 
 
 
 
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     The Department of Human Resources Development, Hawaii State
Commission on the Status of Women, Hawaii Women Lawyers, and
Parents and Children Together testified in support of this bill.
The Hawaii Civil Rights Commission supported the intent of this
bill.

     After careful consideration your Committee has amended this
bill by deleting its substance and inserting language reflected
in a similar bill, H.B. No. 1833, H.D. 1.

     As amended, this bill seeks to equalize wage differentials
between men and women and between minorities and nonminorities
for the same work, and also for dissimilar work that require
equivalent composites of skill, effort, responsibility, and
working conditions, by:

     (1)  Requiring the Director to gather information from
          departments with civil service employees regarding job
          titles, wages, and methods of wage calculation; and

     (2)  Implementing a Fair Pay Project for civil service
          employees.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Labor and Public Employment that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 2061, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No.
2061, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on
Finance.

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



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                                   TERRY NUI YOSHINAGA, Chair