STAND. COM. REP. NO. 948

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 951

       H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 951, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NOTICE OF HEARING BY THE LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS APPEALS BOARD,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board to provide notice of a hearing to a party by posting notice on its webpage, as an alternative to publication in a newspaper, when service by first class mail is ineffective.  This measure further requires that the notice be removed from the webpage at least five business days after the hearing date.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board, and Hawaii Association of the Blind.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure would allow the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board the option of providing notice by online posting in cases where service by first class mail is ineffective.  This option would be an economically efficient and practical alternative to having to publish such notice in a newspaper, which reportedly costs $383 on average.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 951, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

 

 

 

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair