HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

THE TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2003

COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT

Rep. Marcus R. Oshiro, Chair

Rep. Bob Nakasone, Vice Chair

Rep. Kirk Caldwell

Rep. Brian K. Blundell

Rep. Ken Ito

Rep. Mark S. Moses

Rep. Romeo M. Mindo

Rep. David A. Pendleton

Rep. Joseph M. Souki

AMENDED NOTICE OF HEARING

DATE:

Friday, March 14, 2003

TIME:

8:30 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 309

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

S E C O N D A M E N D E D A G E N D A

Senate Bill No. 830, Senate Draft 1, RELATING TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD CHECKS, has been added to the agenda.

 

SB 830

SD1

(SSCR596)

RELATING TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD CHECKS.

Implements the recommendations of the criminal history record check working group, as established pursuant to Act 263, SLH 2001, to address inconsistencies and duplicative statutory language authorizing record checks for employment background checks, certifications, and licensing of individuals. (SD1)

LAB, JUD, FIN

     

SB 363

(SSCR650)

RELATING TO EXPERIMENTAL MODERNIZATION PROJECTS FOR COUNTY BOARDS OF WATER SUPPLY.

Authorizes any county Board of Water Supply serving a population of 500,000 or more persons, to establish an experimental modernization project to determine whether specific changes in its human resource program are desirable.

LAB, FIN

     

SB 205

SD3

(SSCR719)

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT.

Requires public employers to provide paid leave for employees of at least four hours per year for personal matters involving the education or health of their minor children; provided that such leave shall not be credited against vacation or sick leave benefits. (SB205 SD3)

LAB, FIN

     

SB 435

(SSCR949)

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEE HEALTH BENEFITS.

Requires the employer-union health benefits trust fund to establish flexible health benefit option plans for retirees to select benefits coverage under separate option categories. Allows employee-beneficiaries whose spouses are not public employees or retired public employees to enroll in plans.

LAB, FIN

     

SB 779

SD2

(SSCR951)

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Creates a new class H membership of the employees' retirement system. Allows employees in service on 12/31/04 to elect to covert their class C membership to class H membership. Requires employees hired on or after 1/1/05, to be designated as class H members. Establishes the parameters for unreduced retirement allowances, service retirement allowances, minimum cash balance benefits, ordinary disability retirement allowances, service-connected disability retirement allowances, death benefits, post retirement allowances, retirement allowance options, rollovers, and the determination of members' rights after separation from service for class H members. (SD2)

LAB, FIN

     

HCR 97

REQUESTING THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM TO CONDUCT A STUDY ON THE FEASIBILITY OF A HYBRID PLAN.

PENDING REFERRAL TO LAB

     

SB 789

SD1

PROPOSED

H.D. 1

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEE HEALTH BENEFITS.

Restores Health Fund benefits to retirees. Requires annual audits of employee organization health benefit plans. Requires the employer contribution cap on monthly contributions for health benefits plans for retirees to be adjusted annually, beginning July 1, 2002. (PROPOSED HD1)

LAB, FIN

     

SB 687

SD1

PROPOSED

H.D. 1

RELATING TO LEAVES OF ABSENCE.

Implements an Internal Revenue Service approved special pay plan for all eligible employees of the State and county which will not enhance or diminish existing special pay benefits. Allows employees under the age of fifty-five who elect early withdrawal from the special pay plan within sixty days of the effective date of separation from service to be reimbursed by the employer the difference between the Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)and any Medicare tax savings to the employee and any early withdrawal penalty imposed by the Internal Revenue Service. Also, reenacts leaves of absence law relating to the pay of officers and employees on active military service and nonforfeiture for absence. (PROPOSED HD1)

LAB

     

SB 678

SD1

PROPOSED

H.D. 1

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Extends workers' compensation insurance exemption to employers having distributional interest of at least 50% of a limited liability company or having transferable interest of at least 50% of a limited liability partnership. (PROPOSED HD1)

LAB, CPC

COPIES OF THE PROPOSED HOUSE DRAFT 1 FOR SENATE BILL NOS. 789, 687, AND 678 ARE AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC REVIEW AT THE OFFICE REPRESENTATIVE MARCUS OSHIRO, STATE CAPITOL, ROOM 439.

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Rep. Marcus R. Oshiro

Chair