Bill Text: HI HB743 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Public Employees; Paid Leave; Academic Calendared Activities
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to EDU/JDL, WAM. [HB743 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-HB743-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 857
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2013
RE: H.B. No. 743
H.D. 2
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 743, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Specifically, this measure:
(1) Authorizes employees to take time off to attend a school-wide event directly related to a child's educational, cultural, or social development;
(2) Increases the eligible leave time from two to three hours; and
(3) Increases the number of events an employee may attend in a calendar year from two to three.
Your Committee finds that students with families that participate in and support the students' educational activities tend to perform better in school. Increasing the number of events that a public employee may use paid leave to attend and increasing the duration of the leave will encourage parent participation in school activities and improve the academic performance of students.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion on the measure; and
(2) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 743, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 743, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair |
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