Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1586 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to extend unemployment insurance benefits for the displaced employees of Amfac Sugar Kauai for an additional twelve months.

ILWU Local 142 and an individual submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations submitted testimony in opposition to this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to ensure further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1586, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1586, H.D. 1.