STAND. COM. REP. 764

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 132

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 132 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:

(1) Require the Department of Human Resources Development(DHRD) to maintain records relating to positions, wages, gender, and other demographic information concerning state employees;

(2) Require an examination of the records to determine whether issues of employment equity exist; and

(3) Establish a commission to review the records generated by DHRD, and other related material, and develop recommendations to correct any gender-based pay inequities discovered.

The Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, Hawaii Women Lawyers, and Hawaii Women's Coalition testified in support of the measure. DHRD testified in opposition to this measure.

 

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Deleting language requiring the Governor's Commission on Pay Equity to review outdated and flawed studies including the 1995 Study on Wage Equity in Public Employee Bargaining Units 1 and 10 and the 1987 study, "A Job Evaluation Study of Selected Job Classes of the State and Counties of Hawaii";

(2) Inserting language requiring the Governor's Commission on Pay Equity to review timely data, surveys, and reports to identify contemporary information related to wage equity and job classification; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, conformity, 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. 132, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 132, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair