Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor and Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2420 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require a pest control operator to obtain and maintain continuous of workers' compensation and liability insurance coverage as a condition of licensure under Chapter 460J, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

The Pest Control Board (Board) testified in support of this measure. The Hawaii Pest Control Association supported the intent of this bill.

Your Committee finds that if a pest control operator, for whatever reason, does not renew its insurance and there is a lapse, the pest control operator would not have continuous insurance coverage. This situation may occur when an insurance company fails to provide a quote to the pest control operator in a timely fashion or does not provide a renewal quote until hours before the old policy is scheduled to expire. When this happens, insurance companies have a general practice of not back-dating coverage, which would result in the lapsing of the policy.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor and Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2420, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2420,

H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce.