STAND. COM. REP. NO. 362

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1160
                                     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. 1160 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY APPEALS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of the bill is to improve the employment
security appeals process by allowing:

     (1)  Hearings to be held in counties besides the county in
          which the appeal was filed; and 

     (2)  The Employment Security Appeals Referee Officer to hold
          a hearing by telephone and other types of technology.

     Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the
Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

     Your Committee finds that in order to facilitate meeting
federal standards governing the timely disposition of
unemployment compensation appeals, statutory authority should be
granted to hold hearings by telephone or other communication
devices.

     Your Committee has amended the measure by making technical,
nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and clarity.


 
 
 
 
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     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. 1160, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1160, H.D.
1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian
Affairs.

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



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                                   TERRY NUI YOSHINAGA, Chair