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Rep. Scot Z. Matayoshi, Chair |
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Rep. Andrew Takuya Garrett, Vice Chair |
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Rep. Jeanne Kapela |
Rep. Adrian K. Tam |
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Rep. Rose Martinez |
Rep. David Alcos III |
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Rep. Jackson D. Sayama |
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Rep. Lisa Marten, Chair |
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Rep. Terez Amato, Vice Chair |
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Rep. Della Au Belatti |
Rep. Jenna Takenouchi |
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Rep. Greggor Ilagan |
Rep. Scott Y. Nishimoto |
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Rep. Bertrand Kobayashi |
Rep. Diamond Garcia |
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9:15 a.m. |
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VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE Conference Room 309 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
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A G E N D A
HEARING
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RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a three-year child care pilot grant program to provide grants to employers to assist in offering child care or caregiving support for their employees.
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RELATING TO ENFORCEMENT OF ORDERS OF WAGE PAYMENT. Broadens enforcement of orders of wage payment violations to allow for certified copies of orders of wage payment violation to be filed in any court of competent jurisdiction.
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LGO, JHA |
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MAKING EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Makes emergency appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Units (1) and (10) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2023-2025.
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MAKING EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Makes emergency appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Units (2), (3), (4), (9), (13), and (14) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2023-2025.
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LGO, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM FUNDING PERIOD. Lowering the Employees' Retirement System's funding period to amortize the System's total unfunded accrued liability.
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LGO, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Clarifies the Employees' Retirement System's eligibility requirement definitions for service-connected disability and accidental death benefits.
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LGO, FIN |
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RELATING TO EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM PERSONNEL. Amends section 76-16(b), Hawaii Revised Statues, to exempt the Deputy Executive Director, Chief Compliance Officer, and branch managers of the Employees' Retirement System of the State of Hawaii from civil service.
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RELATING TO THE WAGE AND HOUR LAW. Amends the definition of "employee" in Hawaii's wage and hour law by repealing the definition's categorical exclusion of any employee who receives guaranteed compensation totaling $2,000 or more a month. Makes technical non substantive amendments.
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LGO, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE CERTIFICATION OF DOCUMENTS. Establishes the Apostilles and Certifications Special Fund. Requires the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to set a fee for the issuance of an apostille or a non-apostille certification by administrative rules. Appropriates funds into and out of the special fund.
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LGO, FIN |
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Amends section 103D-307, HRS, to add equipment failures, repairs of public property to protect against further loss of, or damage to, public property, to prevent or minimize serious disruption in continued functioning of government services. Replaces Chief Procurement Officer approval with an accounting report to the legislature within sixty days after the end of the fiscal year in which the procurement was made.
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Amends section 103D-301, HRS, methods of source selection, to add the alternative procurement method. Amends chapter 103D, HRS, to add to part III a new section allowing an alternative procurement method when the federal government provides for or approves the alternative procurement method, and the head of the purchasing agency makes a written determination that it is neither practicable nor advantageous to use the existing statutory procurement methods.
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Removes the repeal and reenactment in Act 8, Special Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, to maintain the authority of the President of the University of Hawaii to act as the University of Hawaiiꞌs chief procurement officer.
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DECISION MAKING
The following measure(s) were previously heard on February 1, 2024. No public testimony will be accepted.
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RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. For members of the Employees' Retirement System hired after July 1, 2012, includes overtime in the definition of compensation when an employee has been directed by their supervisor or an appropriate authority to work more than their normal hours of service to perform specific duties and tasks related to an active emergency proclamation.
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RELATING TO HIRING. Authorizes a state department, division, or agency, rather than the Department of Human Resources Development, to conduct a minimum qualification review of applicants for vacant positions within the department, division, or agency. Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to provide state departments, divisions, and agencies the applications received for vacancies under certain circumstances.
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RELATING TO PAID FAMILY LEAVE. By 1/1/2026, requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a family and medical leave insurance program and begin collecting payroll contributions to finance payment of benefits. By 1/1/2027, requires the Department to start receiving claims and paying benefits under the program. Specifies eligibility requirements and employee protections under the program.
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LGO, CPC, FIN |
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The following measure(s) were previously heard on February 2, 2024. No public testimony will be accepted.
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RELATING TO PSYCHOLOGISTS. Authorizes the director of health to appoint psychologists to fill staff positions for the state mental health program.
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LGO, FIN |
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RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Establishes a collective bargaining unit for graduate assistants employed by the University of Hawaii and community college system.
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DECISION MAKING TO FOLLOW
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