STAND. COM. REP. NO.  142

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 436

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 436 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require a workers' compensation examination to be conducted by a qualified impartial doctor whose specialty is appropriate for the injury to be examined.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, ILWU Local 142, Work Injury Medical Association of Hawaii, Hawaii State AFL-CIO, Hawaii Injured Worker Association, the Plumbers and Fitters Union, Local 675, and an individual supported this measure.  The Department of Human Resources Development provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to January 1, 2113, to encourage further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 436, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 436, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair