THE TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2018
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Senator Jill N. Tokuda, Chair |
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Senator J. Kalani English, Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF HEARING
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Tuesday, February 6, 2018 |
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3:30 p.m. |
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Conference Room 229 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
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RELATING TO MINIMUM WAGE. Increases the minimum wage to $12.25 per hour in 2019 and $15 per hour in 2020. Repeals language allowing the hourly wage of a tipped employee to be increased on account of tips. Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to annually calculate the adjusted minimum wage rate to the nearest five cents using the Honolulu region CPI-W.
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RELATING TO MINIMUM WAGE. Includes persons with disabilities under the minimum wage requirements.
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RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE. Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish paid family leave for all workers by 1/1/2023. Authorizes the department to adopt interim rules. Establishes the paid family leave implementation board to assist the department and report to the Legislature. Establishes a paid family leave special fund. Appropriates funds. (Proposed SD1)
Copies of the proposed SD 1 are available from the Senate Document Center and on the Legislature's website: www.capitol.hawaii.gov.
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RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE. Establishes a family leave insurance program, which requires employees and employers to make contributions into an insurance fund to be used to provide employees with family leave insurance benefits in order to care for a designated person. Appropriates funds to implement the program.
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RELATING TO FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE. Establishes the Paid Family and Medical Leave Program. Creates fund.
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RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Requires health care providers in the workers' compensation system who are authorized to prescribe opioids to adopt and maintain policies for informed consent to opioid therapy in circumstances that carry elevated risk of dependency. Establishes limits for concurrent opioid and benzodiazepine prescriptions.
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RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Provides that negotiations over the implementation of management decisions affecting the terms and conditions of employment that are subject to collective bargaining are not precluded from collective bargaining negotiations.
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Decision Making to follow, if time permits.
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FOR AMENDED NOTICES: Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored. If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.
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_____________________________________ Senator Jill N. Tokuda Chair |
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