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

 
     

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

 
     

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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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 586-8505.

 

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Rep. Marcus R. Oshiro

Chair