STAND. COM. REP. NO.  863-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2323

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2323, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to clarify the procedures necessary to meet online registration for work requirements under Hawaii's employment security law.

 

     The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, ILWU Local 142, and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO supported this bill.

 

     The online registration for work requirements in section 383-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), that are referenced in this bill, were enacted by Act 170, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009, as part of the partial unemployment program.  That program, including its online registration for work requirements, will be repealed on July 1, 2012.

 

     Your Committee finds that this bill intends to clarify the registration for work requirements that are generally applicable under the employment security law, not just the partial unemployment program.  Your Committee has thus made technical, nonsubstantive amendments consistent with the intent of this bill that include:

(1)  Replacing the reference to section 383-1, HRS, with a reference to the general registration for work requirement under section 383-29(a), HRS;

 

(2)  Ensuring the definition of "registered for work" in section 383-1 that is amended in this bill is not repealed when Act 170 sunsets in 2012.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2323, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2323, H.D. 2.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs,

 

 

 

 

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ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair