Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 773 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish an alternative base period under the employment security law for individuals who do not have sufficient qualifying weeks or wages in the base period to qualify for unemployment insurance benefits.

Your Committee finds that the alternative base period will give the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations more flexibility in determining a base period that best reflects the employee's true earnings.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 773 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.