STAND. COM. REP. NO. 280-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2258

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Labor & Government Operations and Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 2258 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to transfer the rights, powers, functions, duties, resources, and individual budget of the Department of Education relating to workers' compensation for its employees from the Department of Education to the Department of Human Resources Development.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from Premier Medical Group Hawaii and one individual. Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Human Resources Development. Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Education and one individual.

Your Committees find that Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, transferred the control of certain functions of executive branch agencies that pertained to education personnel and facilities, including responsibility over the workers' compensation claims of its employees, to the Department of Education. However, your Committees further find that those functions may be more efficiently performed by the Department of Human Resources Development. This measure transfers the rights, powers, functions, duties, resources, and individual budget of the Department of Education relating to workers' compensation for its employees to the Department of Human Resources Development.

Your Committees have amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor & Government Operations and Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2258, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2258, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Labor & Government Operations and Education,

____________________________ JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair

____________________________ SCOT Z. MATAYOSHI, Chair