STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2925

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2554
                                        H.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor and Environment, to which was
referred H.B. No. 2554, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to require payments from the
Special Compensation Fund (SCF) only when the thirty-two week
requirement for pre-existing disability is met.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and the ILWU Local
142.

     Since 1982, the thirty-two week threshold applied to
permanent partial, permanent total, and death cases.  In 1995,
the threshold was removed for partial disabilities but retained
for permanent total disability and death cases.  This measure
reapplies the thirty-two week threshold to permanent partial
disability cases.

     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. 2554, H.D. 1, 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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