Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 3035, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to ensure that employees receive fair compensation for the entire length of disability by requiring that injured employees who have not actually resumed work continue to receive temporary total disability (TTD) benefits until the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations decides to terminate benefits.

The Hawaii State Teachers Association, Hawaii Government Employees Association, ILWU Local 142, Hawaii State AFL-CIO, Hawaii Medical Association, Hawaii Chapter, American Physical Therapy Association, and concerned individuals testified in support of this bill. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Department of Human Resources Development, Hawaii Insurers Council, and the Society for Human Resource Management, Hawaii Chapter opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

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 S.B. No. 3035, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3035, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.