STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2856

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2643

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2643 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to expand the scope of workers eligible for referrals to receive vocational rehabilitation services.

Specifically, this bill includes those workers who have otherwise been deemed unable to return to their regular jobs-–interpreted to cover non-physical injuries–-for referrals by the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to vocational rehabilitation services.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has made the following amendments:

(1) Technical amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency; and

(2) Changing the effective date to June 30, 2099 for the purpose of facilitating further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2643, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2643, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair