STAND. COM. REP. NO 665

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1120

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 1120 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board the option to provide notice of a hearing by posting on its webpage when service by first class mail has been unsuccessful.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board.

     Your Committee finds that under existing law, if the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board is unable to effect service of a hearing notice by first class mail, it may effect notice by publication in a newspaper.  The Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board has testified that this measure would provide it with an effective and cost-saving alternative to effecting notice of a hearing.

     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. 1120 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair