STAND. COM. REP. NO.  999

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 1208

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1208, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for two full-time equivalent (2.00 FTE) enforcement specialist IV positions to be primarily responsible for the enforcement of Hawaii's workers' compensation, temporary disability insurance, and prepaid health care laws.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Department of Human Resources of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii Insurers Council, The Chamber of Commerce Hawaii, Hawaii Construction Alliance, Pacific Resource Partnership, and International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142 supported this measure.  The General Contractors Association of Hawaii and an individual provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the number of positions established to an unspecified number; and

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

     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. 1208, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1208, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair