STAND. COM. REP. NO.  629-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2584

      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. 2584 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to enable the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to more efficiently process workers' compensation insurance policies issued by private insurers by allowing the Director to accept notice of an employer's workers' compensation insurance from approved third party agencies on a form approved by the Director.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations; International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 142; The Pacific Resource Partnership; Laborers' International Union of North America, Local 368; and an individual testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2112, for the purpose of facilitating future discussion.

     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. 2584, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2584, 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