STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1219

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.C.R. No. 48

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 48 entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS TO CONDUCT A STUDY ON PROVIDING CHILD CARE SERVICES TO CHILDREN OF STATE EMPLOYEES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this resolution is to request that a study be undertaken regarding the necessity and feasibility of providing child care services for children of state employees. 

 

     The Hawaii Government Employees Association and the Good Beginnings Alliance testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations offered comments.

 

     Your committee finds that the availability of child care services is increasingly at issue due to the growing number of parents in the workforce.  Providing child care services for state employees would help employees with young children obtain affordable child care, open up private child care facilities to other families, enable state employers to recruit and retain employees, and reduce employee absenteeism due to child care issues. 

 

     Based on the testimony received on this measure, your committee finds that the Department of Human Resources Development would be a more appropriate agency to conduct the requested study, instead of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.  Accordingly, references to the "Department of Labor and Industrial Relations" have been replaced by "Department of Human Resources Development."

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 48, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 48, H.D. 1.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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ALEX M. SONSON, Chair