STAND. COM. REP. NO.  614-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2576

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business, to which was referred H.B. No. 2576 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify that employers' contribution rate notices should be appealed to the Employment Security Appeals Referees' Office.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2112, for the purpose of facilitating further discussion; and

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

     Your Committee respectfully requests that your Committee on Finance further examine the removal of language that specifies that the appeal could be brought to a Circuit Court.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2576, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2576, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business,

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair