Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 968 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to encourage eligible claimants of unemployment insurance to seek gainful employment by permitting claimants to receive their weekly benefit amount without reductions for wages payable to the claimant.

ILWU Local 142, Hawaii State AFL-CIO, and the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union Local 5 AFL-CIO supported this bill. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations supported the intent of this bill.

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

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. 968, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 968, H.D. 1.