STAND. COM. REP. NO.  145

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 920

      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. 920 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO APPEALS TO THE LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS APPEALS BOARD,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board (Board) to establish a $30 filing fee for workers' compensation appeals and fees for other administrative costs associated with the processing of appeals and to establish a Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board Special Fund into which funds shall be deposited for use by the Board.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board, and Hawaii Laborers' Union supported this measure.  Hawaii Insurers Council opposed this measure.  The ILWU Local 142 and The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Adding a three-year sunset provision; and

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

     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. 920, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 920, 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