STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1743

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   S.B. No. 969

      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 S.B. No. 969, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation to provide funds for the Department of Human Resources Development to pay workers' compensation claims required under Hawaii's Workers' Compensation Law.

Pursuant to requirements set forth in Article VII, Section 9, of the Hawaii State Constitution, the Governor, in Governor's Message No. 4 to the Legislature, requested immediate consideration and passage of this bill by the Legislature to provide funds needed to pay workers' compensation claims.

The Department of Budget and Finance and an individual supported this measure.  The Department of Human Resources Development provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting an appropriation amount of $2,400,000 to pay for workers' compensation claims; and

     (2)  Changing its effective date to take effect upon its approval.

     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 S.B. No. 969, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 969, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair