STAND. COM. REP. NO. 357

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1165
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:
     Your Committee on Labor and Public Employment, to which was
referred H.B. No. 1165 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND
     HEALTH TRAINING AND ASSISTANCE FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to amend the Occupational Safety
and Health Training and Assistance Fund (Fund) by:
     
     (1)  Including among the Fund's uses certification programs
          to enhance safety and health; and

     (2)  Extending the Fund's repeal date to July 1, 2003.

     The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and Hawaii
Island Contractors Association testified in support of this bill.

     Your Committee finds that the Fund has been successful in
reducing the frequency of workplace accidents, as well as the
cost to businesses.

     Your Committee has amended the bill by:

     (1)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments to the bill
          to ensure that only provisions related to the Fund in
          section 396-4(c), Hawaii Revised Statutes, are repealed
          and reenacted; and


 
 
 
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     (2)  Changing the effective date to June 30, 1999, to
          preserve the intent and purpose of this bill.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Labor and Public Employment that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 1165, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1165, H.D.
1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   TERRY NUI YOSHINAGA, Chair