HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
THE TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2003
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COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT |
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Rep. Marcus R. Oshiro, Chair |
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Rep. Bob Nakasone, Vice Chair |
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Rep. Kirk Caldwell |
Rep. Brian K. Blundell |
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Rep. Ken Ito |
Rep. Mark S. Moses |
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Rep. Romeo M. Mindo |
Rep. David A. Pendleton |
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Rep. Joseph M. Souki |
NOTICE OF HEARING
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DATE: |
Friday, March 14, 2003 |
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TIME: |
8:30 a.m. |
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PLACE: |
Conference Room 309 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A G E N D A
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SB 205 SD3 (SSCR719) |
RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT. Requires public employers to provide paid leave for employees of at least four hours per year for personal matters involving the education or health of their minor children; provided that such leave shall not be credited against vacation or sick leave benefits. (SB205 SD3) |
LAB, FIN |
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SB 435 (SSCR949) |
RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEE HEALTH BENEFITS. Requires the employer-union health benefits trust fund to establish flexible health benefit option plans for retirees to select benefits coverage under separate option categories. Allows employee-beneficiaries whose spouses are not public employees or retired public employees to enroll in plans. |
LAB, FIN |
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SB 779 SD2 (SSCR951) |
RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Creates a new class H membership of the employees' retirement system. Allows employees in service on 12/31/04 to elect to covert their class C membership to class H membership. Requires employees hired on or after 1/1/05, to be designated as class H members. Establishes the parameters for unreduced retirement allowances, service retirement allowances, minimum cash balance benefits, ordinary disability retirement allowances, service-connected disability retirement allowances, death benefits, post retirement allowances, retirement allowance options, rollovers, and the determination of members' rights after separation from service for class H members. (SD2) |
LAB, FIN |
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SB 789 SD1 PROPOSED HD1 |
RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEE HEALTH BENEFITS. Restores Health Fund benefits to retirees. Requires annual audits of employee organization health benefit plans. Requires the employer contribution cap on monthly contributions for health benefits plans for retirees to be adjusted annually, beginning July 1, 2002. (PROPOSED HD1) |
LAB, FIN |
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SB 687 SD1 PROPOSED HD1 |
RELATING TO LEAVES OF ABSENCE. Implements an Internal Revenue Service approved special pay plan for all eligible employees of the State and county which will not enhance or diminish existing special pay benefits. Allows employees under the age of fifty-five who elect early withdrawal from the special pay plan within sixty days of the effective date of separation from service to be reimbursed by the employer the difference between the Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)and any Medicare tax savings to the employee and any early withdrawal penalty imposed by the Internal Revenue Service. Also, reenacts leaves of absence law relating to the pay of officers and employees on active military service and nonforfeiture for absence. (PROPOSED HD1) |
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SB 678 SD1 PROPOSED HD1 |
RELATING TO INSURANCE. Extends workers' compensation insurance exemption to employers having distributional interest of at least 50% of a limited liability company or having transferable interest of at least 50% of a limited liability partnership. (PROPOSED HD1) |
LAB, CPC |
Copies of the proposed HD1 for Senate Bill Nos. 789, 687, AND 678 will be available for public review at the Office of Reprentative Marcus Oshiro, State Capitol, Room 439, after 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 11, 2003.
DECISION MAKING TO FOLLOW
PERSONS WISHING TO TESTIFY ARE REQUESTED TO SUBMIT 40 COPIES OF THEIR TESTIMONY AT LEAST 24 HOURS PRIOR TO THE HEARING TO: (1) THE COMMITTEE'S VICE CHAIR IN ROOM 424, STATE CAPITOL, OR (2) THE HOUSE SGT.-AT-ARMS TESTIMONY DROP BOX IN THE TURNAROUND AREA OF THE CAPITOL BASEMENT PARKING LOT. TESTIMONY MAY BE FAXED TO THE HOUSE SGT.-AT-ARMS OFFICE AT: 586-6501 (OAHU) OR 1-800-535-3859 (NEIGHBOR ISLANDS). WHEN FAXING, PLEASE INDICATE TO WHOM THE TESTIMONY IS BEING SUBMITTED, THE DATE AND TIME OF THE HEARING, AND THE REQUIRED NO. OF COPIES THAT ARE NEEDED FOR SUBMITTAL.
IT IS ALSO REQUESTED THAT THE COPIES BE ON ONE SIDE OF AN 8-1/2" X 11" SHEET WITH TWO HOLES PUNCHED AT THE TOP. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE LAB COMMITTEE CLERK AT 586-8505.
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________________________________________ Rep. Marcus R. Oshiro Chair |
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