COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT

Rep. Marcus R. Oshiro, Chair

Rep. Bob Nakasone, Vice Chair

MEASURES PREVIOUSLY HEARD ON JANUARY 28, 2003

HB 389

Requires an employer who provides sick leave for employees to use up to ten days of the employee's accrued and available sick leave for family leave purposes in a single calendar year, except when the use of sick leave for family leave purposes is subject to a valid collective bargaining agreement. Defines "sick leave" under the Family Leave Law (Chapter 398, Hawaii Revised Statutes).

LAB, FIN

HB 29

Requires employers to provide meal breaks after 5 hours of work.

LAB, FIN

MEASURES PREVIOUSLY HEARD ON JANUARY 31, 2003 AGENDA #1

HB 957

Establishes a zero-tolerance policy for the use of controlled substances in government employment. Authorizes mandatory drug testing for new hires. Authorizes random drug testing for active employees.

LAB, JUD, FIN

HB 1293

Establishes medical care savings accounts in the employer-union health benefits trust fund for health care needs for state and county employees.

LAB, FIN

HB 450

Allows employers to establish individual medical trust accounts to cover the health care expenses of employees arising from work-related injuries.

LAB, CPC/JUD, FIN

HB 1167

Authorizes private insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to offer high-deductible health insurance policies in conjunction with medical savings accounts in this State.

LAB, CPC, FIN

MEASURES PREVIOUSLY HEARD ON FEBRUARY 4, 2003 AGENDA #1

HB 385

Establishes procedures to prevent workplace violence.

LAB, JUD

HB 1198

Amends prohibited occupations and work hour standards, and the penalty for violations of provisions relating to the employment of minors in certain types of establishments.

LAB, JUD

HB 725

Allows certain businesses to claim an income tax credit of up to fifteen percent of prepaid health insurance premiums paid for employees and their families.

LAB, FIN

HB 1205

Prohibits the appointment of certain healthcare professionals to the prepaid Health Care Advisory Council.

LAB, FIN

HB 1510

Clarifies definition of "Chiropractic".

LAB, CPC/JUD

MEASURES PREVIOUSLY HEARD ON FEBRUARY 4, 2003 AGENDA #2

HB 290

Creates a program providing additional benefits to unemployed workers by extending their unemployment insurance benefits.

LAB, FIN

HB 294

Provides temporary health insurance for unemployed person who lost their health insurance.

LAB, FIN

HB 1197

Conforms state statutory provisions to the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002. Eliminates the fund restriction to UI administrative use only, so that monies can also be used to pay for UI benefits as well as the administration of its system of public employment offices.

LAB, FIN

HB 1385

Allows moneys in the employment and training fund to be used for employers to train their own employees, incentives for employers to train residents in skills in critically short supply, and incentives for employers to train workers recently unemployed or likely to be unemployed.

LAB, FIN

HB 511

Authorizes the Legislature and the city councils to reject individual cost items agreed to during collective bargaining negotiations.

LAB, FIN

HB 509

Creates a collective bargaining unit for substitute teachers of the DOE, including part-time employees working less than one-half of a full-time equivalent. Allows the members of bargaining unit (14) to strike. Prohibits bargaining over wages as long as the wages of these employees are established in law.

LAB, FIN

MEASURES PREVIOUSLY HEARD ON FEBRUARY 4, 2003 AGENDA #3

(HSCR36-02)

Allows a faculty member or administrative, professional, or technical employee of UH with multiple part-time faculty appointments to meet eligibility requirements for membership in the ERS; allows faculty, lecturers, or administrative, professional, or technical staff employed at UH who hold multiple part-time appointments which together aggregate to at least one-half full-time equivalent position to become ERS members (HB317 HD1).

HED, LAB, FIN

HB 388

Requires ERS to review its investment managers through a formalized request for proposal process conducted every four years.

LAB, FIN

HB 553

Restores the method used to calculate a member's average final compensation.

LAB, FIN

HB 130

Requires spousal or reciprocal beneficiary consent to any retirement benefit option selected by a member. Designates option as the retirement benefit option when a spouse or reciprocal beneficiary refuses to consent to a member's election of a benefit option, but entitles the spouse or reciprocal beneficiary to an annuity of % of the allowance received by the member before death.

LAB, FIN

HB 1157

Minimizes the administrative processing of refunding contributions for the employees excluded from Social Security.

LAB, FIN

HB 1159

Requires the ERS to pay interest on the retroactive amount due retirees whose pensions are not finalized within six calendar months following the month of retirement. Authorizes the ERS to assess the employing agency a late fee for each month of delay in reporting unused sick leave balances, lump sum vacation payments and other pertinent information (e.g., breakdown of retroactive payments) needed to finalize a retiree's pension.

LAB, FIN

HB 287

Provides that a public employee who has been convicted of a felony that took place within the course and scope of the employee's duties must forfeit the employee's benefits starting from the date of the act constituting the felony of which the employee was convicted.

LAB, JUD, FIN

HB 865

Prohibits a public employee from taking official action directly affecting a brother, sister, parent, emancipated child, or household member.

LAB, JUD

MEASURES PREVIOUSLY HEARD FEBRUARY 4, 2003 AGENDA #4

(HSCR22-02)

Allows a licensed emergency medical technician to receive a state retirement pension after twenty-five years of service. (HB507 HD1)

HLT, LAB, FIN

HB 989

Allows contributory members of the ERS to withdraw, on a one-time basis, part or all of the member's contributions under certain conditions of economic hardship.

LAB, FIN

HB 990

Allows contributory members of the ERS to withdraw, for one time only, part or all of the member's contributions under certain conditions of economic hardship.

LAB, FIN

HB 986

Allows surviving dependent children to receive ERS death benefits after age 18 while a full-time student or until reaching age 24, whichever occurs first, there is no surviving spouse of employee who qualified for but had not yet retired.

LAB, FIN

HB 569

Establishes a deferred option retirement plan for firefighters.

LAB, FIN

Chair