STAND. COM. REP. NO.  262

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1076

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Economic Revitalization & Business, to which was referred H.B. No. 1076 entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds received by the State from the 2009 special administrative transfer for the exclusive payment of the administrative expenses arising from Hawaii's Employment Security Law, Chapter 383, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS).

 

     The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations testified in support of this bill.

 

     Under section 383-123(b), HRS, the special administrative transfer credited to the State's account pursuant to Section 903 of the Social Security Act, as amended, would be available for the payment of benefits and administrative costs.  However, the federal funds were transferred for the restricted purpose of paying administrative expenses.  Therefore, your Committees find this bill necessary to limit the use of the 2009 special administrative transfer to administrative costs to avoid any violation of federal law.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Economic Revitalization & Business that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1076 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Economic Revitalization & Business,

 

 

____________________________

ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair

 

____________________________

KARL RHOADS, Chair