STAND. COM. REP. NO. 626-14
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2014
RE: H.B. No. 1973
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2014
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1973, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to:
(1) Impose a penalty on an employer who does not pay an employee temporary partial disability benefits within 14 calendar days after the end of the employee's customary work week;
(2) Clarify that an employee's eligibility for temporary total or partial disability benefits shall be determined by certification from the employee's attending physician every 30 days or by an examination of the employee's entire available medical records by another physician if the employee's attending physician is not available; and
(3) Allow contemporaneous certification of an employee's disability status to be waived and allow the retroactive certification of a disability under certain circumstances. Retroactive certification may be requested only once and shall not be for a period exceeding 12 months before the date of the request.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1973, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair |
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