STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3769

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2350

H.D. 2

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2350, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to update various assessments and penalties under the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations' jurisdiction to account for inflation by revising the monetary assessments according to changes in the Consumer Price Index.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

Your Committees find that the penalties contained in this measure have not been raised recently or since the enactment of the affected statutes. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the equivalent of many of the penalties with inflation were often double the existing statutory amounts. According to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, most of the revised amounts of the penalties contained in this measure were derived using the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index Inflation Calculator. This measure will make changes to the assessment and penalty amounts to account for inflation and will improve compliance with the law.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2350, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means,

________________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

________________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair