STAND. COM. REP. NO. 892-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2906
                                     




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Economic Development and Business
Concerns, to which was referred S.B. No. 2906 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GARMENT INDUSTRY HOMEWORK,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to repeal the garment
industry homework laws.

     The Office of the Lieutenant Governor and the Department of
Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) testified in favor of this
measure. 

     Currently, a certificate issued by the DLIR is required if a
garment manufacturer has workers who sew at home.  In the last
three years, DLIR has issued only one certificate.  Repeal of
this chapter would not remove minimum wage and overtime
protection currently in place.  Your Committee is in agreement
that the chapter should be repealed as unnecessary regulation.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Economic Development and Business Concerns that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2906 and recommends that it pass
Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Consumer
Protection and Commerce.


 
 
 
 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Economic
                                   Development and Business
                                   Concerns,



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                                   ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair