STAND. COM. REP. NO.  109-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2400

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2400 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TEMPORARY DISABILITY BENEFITS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to include organ donation as a compensable disability and provide temporary disability benefits to organ donors.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Department of Human Resources Development, The Queen's Health Systems,  National Kidney Foundation of Hawaii, and an individual provided testimony in support of this measure.

     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. 2400 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

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

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair