STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2680

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2833

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2833 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 and intent 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 having to provide unemployment insurance, workers' compensation, temporary disability insurance, and pre-paid health care.

     Your Committee finds that individuals who receive Medicaid assistance do not have to pay for unemployment insurance, workers' compensation, temporary disability insurance, and pre-paid health care.  However, certain individuals who are not eligible for Medicaid assistance but receive in-home and community-based services through the state Department of Human Services must pay for employment-related costs.  This measure attempts to resolve the disparate treatment of these two groups of social services recipients.  

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     Your Committee notes that the title of this measure as introduced contains a misspelled word that is intended to mean an employment exemption for domestic services for persons with developmental and intellectual disabilities.  Your Committee's preference is to adhere to the long-standing legislative practice to not amend bill titles after introduction.

     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 S.B. No. 2833, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2833, S.D. 1.

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

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair