STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1049

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.C.R. No. 168

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 168 entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS TO CONVENE A WORKING GROUP TO STREAMLINE THE STATE'S WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROCESS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to streamline the State’s workers’ compensation process by requesting the establishment of a working group in the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

 

     The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and ILWU Local 142 submitted testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Human Resources Development provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Designating the Director or the Deputy Director of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations as the Chairperson of the working group;

 

     (2)  Designating the Director of Human Resources Development or the Director’s designee to serve as a member of the working group;

 

     (3)  Requesting the working group to submit a report to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2017; and

 

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 168, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 168, H.D. 1.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

 

 

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair