STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2628

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3049

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism, to which was referred S.B. No. 3049 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYER INFORMATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend section 201-13.8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to collect and analyze employer information and data.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from Retail Merchants of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism currently does not have the authority to collect and analyze employer data related to industry and occupational wages by county or other employment conditions and practices. Your Committee further finds that this type of data is vital to the effective operation of several programs within the purview of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Accordingly, your Committee finds that this measure will increase the effectiveness of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism by authorizing the collection of data necessary to inform and support programs within the Department's purview.

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 Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3049, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3049, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism,

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair