STAND. COM. REP. NO.  614-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

RE:   H.B. No. 2257

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2257, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BENEFITS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to encourage workers who are receiving partial unemployment benefits and are exempt from work search requirements, to look for part-time work to supplement their benefits, by providing that these workers are not disqualified for partial unemployment benefits if they separate from their part-time employer, regardless of the reason for the separation.

     The Hawaii Government Employees Association and ILWU Local 142 supported this bill.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations opposed this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by adding definitions for "attached to a regular employer," "partial unemployment," and "registration for work" derived from Act 170, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009, which enacted the partial unemployment program.

     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. 2257, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2257, H.D. 2.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair