STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1011-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2833

      S.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 Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2833, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT EXEMPTION FOR DOMESTIC SERVICES FOR PERSONS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL AND INTELLECUTAL DISABILITIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to exempt Medicaid-ineligible recipients of state funded domestic in-home and community-based services for persons with developmental and intellectual disabilities from being required to provide unemployment insurance, workers' compensation, temporary disability insurance, and prepaid health care coverage for providers of those services.

 

     The Department of Human Services, Department of Health, and Department of Labor and Industrial Relations testified in support of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2833, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Labor & Public Employment.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

 

 

 

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair