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Rep. Aaron Ling Johanson, Chair |
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Rep. Daniel Holt, Vice Chair |
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Rep. Jarrett Keohokalole |
Rep. Kyle T. Yamashita |
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Rep. Mark M. Nakashima |
Rep. Lauren Kealohilani Matsumoto |
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Rep. Roy M. Takumi |
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NOTICE OF HEARING
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Conference Room 309 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
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RELATING TO LABOR. Requires employers of twenty-five or more food establishment workers to provide the workers with paid time off for illness and preventive medical care of the worker and the worker's spouse and children and for treatment arising from domestic violence or sexual assault.
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RELATING TO EMPLOYEES. Establishes a shared leave program within the department of labor and industrial relations to allow state employees to donate accumulated sick leave and vacation leave credits to a shared leave bank or to another state employee who has a serious personal illness or injury or who has a family member who has a serious personal illness or injury.
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RELATING TO LABOR. Establishes the Hawaii Economic Security Working Group within DBEDT to analyze and make recommendations regarding economic health and stability in light of future automation, globalization, and disruptive innovation.
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RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION PRESCRIPTION DRUG REIMBURSEMENT. Amends the reimbursement rate for prescription drugs in the workers' compensation system to be ten per cent below average wholesale price. Restricts the provision of physician-dispensed prescription drugs to the first ninety days following injury.
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RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. Limits reimbursements for compounded prescription drugs to $1,000 in a thirty-day period. Limits reimbursements for any schedule II drug under chapter 329, Uniform Controlled Substances Act, Hawaii Revised Statues, dispensed by a physician to a one-time thirty-day supply upon the first visit.
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RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Requires the director of labor and industrial relations to set workers' compensation medical charges that correspond to the United States Department of Labor Office of Workers' Compensation Programs fee schedule instead of the Medicare Resource Based Relative Value Scale applicable to Hawaii. Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to submit a report to the legislature. Makes an appropriation for analysis of the Act's impact on injured worker's access to treatment. Repeals on 12/31/2024.
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. Appropriates 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.
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RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Appropriates funds for 2 FTE positions in the disability compensation division of DLIR.
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________________________________________ Rep. Aaron Ling Johanson Chair |
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