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 |
NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING
DATE: |
Tuesday, February 4, 2003 |
TIME: |
8:30 a.m. |
PLACE: |
Conference Room 309 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A G E N D A
MEASURES HEARD ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2002 AGENDA #1 |
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HB 957 |
RELATING TO GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. Establishes a zero-tolerance policy for the use of controlled substances in government employment. Authorizes mandatory drug testing for new hires. Authorizes random drug testing for active employees. |
LAB, JUD, FIN |
HB 641 |
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. |
LAB, JUD, FIN |
HB 1293 |
RELATING TO MEDICAL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS IN THE EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Establishes medical care savings accounts in the employer-union health benefits trust fund for health care needs for state and county employees. |
LAB, FIN |
HB 450 |
RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Allows employers to establish individual medical trust accounts to cover the health care expenses of employees arising from work-related injuries. |
LAB, CPC/JUD, FIN |
HB 1167 |
RELATING TO MEDICAL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS. Authorizes private insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to offer high-deductible health insurance policies in conjunction with medical savings accounts in this State. |
LAB, CPC, FIN |
HB 616 |
RELATING TO STRIKES. Prohibits public employers from privatizing government services that are not being provided due to a lawful strike. Allows public employees to seek injunctive relief if a public employer violates laws relating to strikes. |
LAB, JUD, FIN |
MEASURES HEARD ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2003 AGENDA #2 |
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HB 386 |
RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Extends workers' compensation insurance exemption to employers owning 50% or more of a limited liability company or a limited liability partnership. |
LAB, CPC/JUD, FIN |
HB 1069 |
RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY. Provides and limits optional exemptions from the unemployment insurance law for business owners holding at least a 50% interest in their company; repeals the disqualification for unemployment benefits of an owner-employee of a corporation who voluntarily leaves employment. |
LAB, CPC, FIN |
HB 1249 |
RELATING TO THE HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Allows the Board of Trustees for the Health Benefits Trust Fund to hire independent legal counsel. |
LAB, JUD, FIN |
HB 969 |
RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Maintains the process of arbitration mutually agreed upon by public employers and employees. |
LAB, JUD, FIN |
HB 1013 |
RELATING TO EXAMINATIONS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF PERMANENT IMPAIRMENT. Requires employer-requested medical examinations for workers' compensation cases involving the determination of permanent impairment to be performed by a physician selected by mutual agreement of the parties, or if no agreement, by a physician appointed by the director of the department of labor and industrial relations. |
LAB, CPC, FIN |
HB 474 |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE EMERGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL WORKFORCE. Appropriates funds to continue the emergency environmental workforce program. |
LAB, EEP, FIN |
HB 554 |
RELATING TO GOVERNMENT. Authorizes a board of water supply serving a population of 500,000 or more persons, to implement an experimental civil service modernization project without the approval from the Mayor. |
LAB, JUD, FIN |
HB 606 |
RELATING TO COMMUNITY SERVICES. Transfers the office of community services from the department of labor and industrial relations to the department of human services. |
LAB, HSH, FIN |
HB 1196 |
RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. Gives the city and county of Honolulu, the counties of Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai, the University of Hawaii, and the Hawaii health systems corporation the right to negotiate their own collective bargaining agreements for their own employees, separate and apart from the State. Authorizes the UH and the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to establish their own personnel system, separate and apart from the State. |
LAB, JUD, FIN |
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________________________________________ Rep. Marcus R. Oshiro Chair |
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