STAND. COM. REP. NO.1106
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: S.B. No. 446
S.D. 1
H.D. 1
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 S.B. No. 446, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure, as received, is to assist students and dislocated employees of Amfac Kauai Sugar by:
(1) Clarifying that services performed by students who are employed by a school, university, or college during any part of the calendar year are excluded from unemployment compensation;
(2) Granting a 12-month extension of unemployment insurance benefits to dislocated employees of Amfac Kauai sugar workers;
(3) Creating a temporary special fund to be known as the Dislocated Amfac Sugar Kauai Employee Unemployment Compensation Fund (Fund); and
(4) Appropriating funds to be deposited into this Fund.
The Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women and ILWU Local 142 supported this measure. The Department of the Attorney General and the Department of Land and Industrial Relations opposed this measure.
Your Committee has amended this bill by deleting its entire contents and replacing it with the contents of H.B. No. 1586, which was heard earlier this session. As amended, this bill extends the unemployment insurance benefits for the displaced employees of Amfac Sugar Kauai for an additional period of twelve months.
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 S.B. No. 446, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 446, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor and Public Employment,
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____________________________ TERRY NUI YOSHINAGA, Chair |
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