STAND. COM. REP. NO.  820-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2722

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2722, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the payment of an additional 13 weeks of unemployment insurance benefits for eligible individuals whose regular unemployment insurance benefits expire during the period between September 4, 2016, and October 28, 2017, subject to the availability of funds from the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund.

The United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, and AFL-CIO; ILWU Local 142; and Hawaii State AFL-CIO supported this measure.  The Building Industry Association of Hawaii and Hawaii Credit Union League opposed this measure.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and Chamber of Commerce Hawaii provided comments.  

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2722, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair