Bill Text: HI SB2341 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Employment Practices; Domestic Violence

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-19 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Carroll, Chang, Har, Manahan, Morita, M. Oshiro, Tokioka, Ward excused (8). [SB2341 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2341-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  845-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2341

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Human Services and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2341, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to help provide increased employment security for victims of domestic abuse by adding domestic abuse victims as a protected class under the employment discrimination law.

 

     The Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  The Hawaii Civil Rights Commission (HCRC) supported the intent of this measure.  The Society for Human Resource Management opposed this bill.

 

     Your Committees acknowledge that the proposed new protected class may require additional funding and staffing for the HCRC in light of data suggesting that this protected class will be large.

 

     Upon careful consideration, your Committees have amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Making the protected status of domestic abuse victims contingent upon the domestic abuse victim providing notification to the victim's employer;

 

     (2)  Inserting language to state that where an employer is required to provide reasonable accommodations to the domestic violence victim, those accommodations will be provided unless it would cause an undue hardship to the employer;

 

     (3)  Including a sunset date of June 30, 2012;

 

     (4)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (5)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2341, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2341, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair		____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair