STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1169

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1076

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1076, H.D. 1, S.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 statutorily authorize the use of federal moneys made available in 2009 pursuant to the special transfer provision of Section 903(g) of the Social Security Act, so that the federal moneys can be used to pay for the State's Unemployment Insurance Program administrative expenses.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from Dwight Takamine, Director, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will allow the Unemployment Insurance Division of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to cover expenses for new internet applications, improve the interactive voice response system, improve the tax system, improve the capability of the benefit system, enhance the division's website to respond to claimants' and employers' need for information, and commence required system security assessments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to upon approval.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1076, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1076, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair