HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
THE TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2007
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COMMITTEE ON LABOR & PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT |
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Rep. Alex M. Sonson, Chair |
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Rep. Bob Nakasone, Vice Chair |
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Rep. Cindy Evans |
Rep. Joseph M. Souki |
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Rep. Sharon E. Har |
Rep. Dwight Y. Takamine |
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Rep. Marilyn B. Lee |
Rep. Roy M. Takumi |
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Rep. Sylvia Luke |
Rep. Colleen Rose Meyer |
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Rep. Angus L.K. McKelvey |
Rep. Kymberly Marcos Pine |
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Rep. Scott Y. Nishimoto |
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AMENDED NOTICE OF HEARING
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DATE: |
Friday, February 2, 2007 |
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TIME: |
9:00 a.m. |
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PLACE: |
Conference Room 309 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A M E N D E D A G E N D A
HB 1161 is deleted from this agenda.
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LAB, FIN |
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HB 1258 |
RELATING TO ACTIONS FOR FALSE CLAIMS TO THE STATE. Provides a cause of action for private persons who suffer retribution from employers for whistleblower activities related to the state false claims act.
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LAB, JUD |
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HB 1082 |
RELATING TO BOARDS OF WATER SUPPLY. Repeals the provision encouraging experimental modernization projects by county boards of water supply.
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LAB, FIN |
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HB 1916 |
RELATING TO THE HAWAII LABOR RELATIONS BOARD. Clarifies the procedure on how to elect members of the Hawaii labor relations board.
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LAB, FIN |
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HB 989 |
RELATING TO LEAVE SHARING. Allows employees to donate sick leave credits in addition to vacation credits to assist employees who are on extended leave due to illness.
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LAB, FIN |
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HB 1691 |
RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE. Allows an employee to elect to use accrued paid leave, including vacation, personal, or family leave, for any part of the four-week period of family leave provided under the law.
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LAB, FIN |
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HB 1745 |
RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT. Establishes job security requirements to protect employees when the business for which the employees work is sold or transferred to another employing entity. Adds definition of "divestiture". Creates worker retention trust fund to receive moneys from penalties and to be used to compensate dislocated workers.
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LAB, EDB, FIN |
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HB 1503 |
RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT. Amends definitions of "closing", "covered establishment", and "employer". Requires employer to notify employees of divestiture. Imposes penalties for failure to notify employees of business closing.
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LAB, JUD |
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HB 760 |
RELATING TO A LIVING WAGE FOR WORKERS ON SERVICE CONTRACTS. Reduces the threshold for service contract worker wage provisions from $25,000 to $5,000; requires wages to be based on United States poverty guidelines for Hawaii; requires enforcement by the department of labor and industrial relations; extends additional rights to service contract employees.
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LAB, EDB, FIN |
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HB 859 |
RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. Allows a public employer to negotiate procedures and criteria on promotions, transfers, assignments, demotions, layoffs, suspensions, terminations, discharges, or other disciplinary actions; requires negotiation over the impact of transfers, assignments, and layoffs of public employees.
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LAB, FIN |
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HB 1561 |
RELATING TO LABOR. Establishes labor representation procedures in developments in which the State or counties have an ongoing proprietary interest.
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LAB, FIN |
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HB 763 |
RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW. Amends workers' compensation law, including limiting an employer's ability to terminate benefits, authorizing the recovery of attorney's fees and costs by the injured employee, specifying procedures for medical examinations by the employer's physician, establishing fines for violations, requiring the reporting of denials of claims and relevant information, and further restricting the director of labor and industrial relations' rulemaking authority.
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LAB, CPC, FIN |
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HB 964 |
RELATING TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE. Requires that substance abuse testing be conducted according to the manufacturer's rather than the federal government's package insert. Amends definition of "substance abuse on-site screening test" to include tests used for forensic testing as a workplace testing device.
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LAB, JUD |
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HB 751 |
RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY. Clarifies the time period in which the department of labor and industrial relations may expend funds appropriated under Act 190, Session Laws of Hawaii 2006. Clarifies restrictions on the use of funds.
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LAB, FIN |
DECISION MAKING ONLY ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURES
(Deferred from 1/30/07 hearing. No testimony will be accepted.)
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HB 247 |
RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Allows all employees' retirement system retirants to change their pension payment option if the retirant's beneficiary dies before the retirant.
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LAB, FIN |
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HB 305 |
RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Authorizes recovery of attorney's fees and costs under workers' compensation law by any person who successfully defends any charge of workers' compensation insurance fraud, except criminal cases, against the person who initiates and prosecutes the action. Authorizes the insurance commissioner to investigate complaints and prosecute cases of workers' compensation fraud, provided that the complaint is against an insurance carrier, a self-insured employer, or a full-insured employer.
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LAB, CPC/JUD |
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HB 388 |
RELATING TO EMPLOYEES. Requires successor employers to retain incumbent employees upon the divestiture, sale, or acquisition of a business. Enables certain successor companies that acquire a business to also acquire its predecessor's unemployment insurance contribution assessment rate through 12/31/07.
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LAB, EDB, FIN |
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HB 519 |
RELATING TO THE STATE DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN. Expands the definition of employee under the state deferred compensation plan to include employees who are excluded from participation in the employees' retirement system.
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LAB, FIN |
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________________________________________ Rep. Alex M. Sonson Chair |