STAND. COM. REP. NO. 998

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 50
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor and Environment, to which was
referred H.B. No. 50 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TEMPORARY DISABILITY
     INSURANCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to change the eligibility
requirements for temporary disability insurance benefits.

     Specifically, this measure changes the period of employment
to qualify for temporary disability insurance benefits from "four
completed quarters" to "fifty-two weeks" immediately preceding
the first day of disability.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and the Department
of Education.

     Your Committee finds that this measure provides for a
qualifying period of eligibility which more accurately reflects a
claimant's employment and wage history, resulting in more
equitable benefits to the claimant.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Labor and Environment that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 50 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be
referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Labor and
                                   Environment,



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                                   BOB NAKATA, Chair

 
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