HI SCR98

Director of Labor and Industrial Relations is requested to convene a task force to study, design, and develop a paid family leave pilot program with initial limited coverage that could eventually expand to all public and private sector workers in Hawaii.

Task force must include 16 members including state directors, county mayors, and representatives from labor organizations, business groups, children's advocacy, women's advocacy, and the insurance industry, with a chairperson appointed from among members.

Task force is requested to submit a report to the Legislature no later than 20 days before the 2023 Regular Session covering data on leave taken, implementation issues, pilot program structure recommendations, and estimated costs and impacts.

Report recommendations must address employer coverage by industry and geography, employee eligibility criteria, benefit amounts and wage replacement, leave length, qualifying events, job protection, interaction with the State's Temporary Disability Insurance program, and administrative structure.

Task force is dissolved on January 31, 2023.