STAND. COM. REP. NO. 957

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1076

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1076, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY LAW,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to allocate the 2009 special administrative transfer for payment of Unemployment Insurance Program administrative expenses.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

     Your Committee finds that the Unemployment Division of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations is in need of additional funds to:

     (1)  Purchase a new internet application;

     (2)  Improve the interactive voice response system;

     (3)  Improve the capability of the benefit system;

     (4)  Enhance the Unemployment Division's website to respond to claimants' need for information; and

     (5)  Perform required system security assessments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to allow for further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1076, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1076, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair