STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1138

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   S.B. No. 309

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Public Safety and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 309 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to clarify that sheriffs' chaplains are entitled to workers' compensation.

     The Department of Public Safety supported this bill.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 309 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety and Labor & Public Employment,

____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair

____________________________ FAYE HANOHANO, Chair