STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1010-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 3166

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 3166, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS APPEALS BOARD,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to improve the efficiency and expeditiousness of the workers' compensation system by authorizing the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board (Board) to appoint a hearings officer and set the hearings officer's duties and compensation.

     The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Board, and ILWU Local 142 testified in support of this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2008; and

     (2)  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. 3166, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 3166, H.D. 2.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair