HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

THE TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2007

COMMITTEE ON LABOR & PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT

Rep. Alex M. Sonson, Chair

Rep. Bob Nakasone, Vice Chair

Rep. Cindy Evans	Rep. Joseph M. Souki
Rep. Sharon E. Har	Rep. Dwight Y. Takamine
Rep. Marilyn B. Lee	Rep. Roy M. Takumi
Rep. Sylvia Luke	Rep. Colleen Rose Meyer
Rep. Angus L.K. McKelvey	Rep. Kymberly Marcos Pine
Rep. Scott Y. Nishimoto

NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING

DATE:

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

TIME:

9:05 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 309

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

A G E N D A

The following bills were previously heard on Friday, February 2, 2007 @ 9:00 a.m. agenda. Chair announced the following bills will be deferred for decision making on Tuesday, February 6, 2007.

HB 1082	RELATING TO BOARDS OF WATER SUPPLY. Repeals the provision encouraging experimental modernization projects by county boards of water supply.	LAB, FIN
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.	LAB, EDB, FIN
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.	LAB, FIN
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.	LAB, CPC, FIN

AS THIS IS A DECISION MAKING MEETING ONLY, NO PUBLIC TESTIMONY WILL BE ACCEPTED.

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Rep. Alex M. Sonson

Chair