STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2113

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2367

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2367 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to deliver its decisions and orders by hand, United States Postal Service mail with delivery confirmation, or electronically.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Labor Relations Board.

Your Committee finds that electronic filing services cut costs for the State by eliminating postage costs and staff time to mail decisions and orders. Your Committee further finds that more than ninety-five percent of parties appearing before the Hawaii Labor Relations Board are registered for electronic filing services, which includes an agreement to receive all documents electronically.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2367, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2367, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

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

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair