Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor and Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1586 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

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

ILWU Local 142 and an individual supported this bill. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations opposed 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. 1586 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.