STAND. COM. REP. NO. 748-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 1792

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1792, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Conform state statutory provisions to the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002; and

(2) Eliminate the restrictions on the use of Reed Act moneys to allow use of the moneys for employment security purposes.

This bill further directs the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) to use for fiscal year 2003-2004:

(1) $1,473,900 in federal Reed Act funds for unemployment compensation; and

(2) $1,473,900 in other federal funds to supplant general fund appropriations for general administration.

DLIR testified in opposition to this measure.

 

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing to unspecified amounts:

(a) The federal Reed Act funds to be used for unemployment compensation; and

(b) The other federal funds to be used to supplant general fund appropriations for general administration to encourage further discussion of these provisions;

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010 to ensure further discussing; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, 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. 1792, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1792, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair