REPORT Title:
Employment; Exemption
Description:
Exempts recipients of social service payments from the scope of employment related laws; defines "recipients of social service payments" as it relates to chapters 383, 386, 392, and 393, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (SD2)
THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
1780 |
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that individuals who provide in home care under the State of Hawaii Medicaid DD-MR Waiver Program, as authorized the Social Security Act, as amended, should be excluded from "employment" under chapters 383, 386, 392, and 393, Hawaii Revised Statutes. The legislature finds that if these individuals are not excluded, then the social service payments must be upwardly adjusted to include the cost of employee benefits for these individuals.
The purpose of this Act is to clarify the existing exclusions under chapters 386, 392, and 393, and to provide a new exclusion under chapter 383, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
SECTION 2. Section 383-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:
""Recipient of social service payments" includes:
(1) A person who is an eligible recipient of social services such as attendant care and day care services; and
(2) A corporation or private agency that contracts directly with the department of human services to provide attendant care and day care authorized under the Social Security Act, as amended."
SECTION 3. Section 386-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:
""Recipient of social service payments" includes:
(1) A person who is an eligible recipient of social services such as attendant care and day care services; and
(2) A corporation or private agency that contracts directly with the department of human services to provide attendant care and day care authorized under the Social Security Act, as amended."
SECTION 4. Section 392-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:
""Recipient of social service payments" includes:
(1) A person who is an eligible recipient of social services such as attendant care and day care services; and
(2) A corporation or private agency that contracts directly with the department of human services to provide attendant care and day care authorized under the Social Security Act, as amended."
SECTION 5. Section 383-7, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§383-7 Excluded service. (a)
"Employment" shall not include [the following service]:
(1) Agricultural labor as defined in section 383-9 if it is performed by an individual who is employed by an employing unit:
(A) [Which,] That, during each
calendar quarter in both the current and the preceding calendar years, paid
less than $20,000 in cash remuneration to individuals employed in agricultural
labor; and
(B) [Which] That had, in each of
the current and the preceding calendar years:
(i) No more than nineteen calendar weeks, whether consecutive or not, in which agricultural labor was performed by its employees; or
(ii) No more than nine individuals in its employ performing agricultural labor in any one calendar week, whether or not the same individuals performed the labor in each week;
(2) Domestic service in a private home, local college club, or local chapter of a college fraternity or sorority as set forth in section 3306(c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended;
(3) Service not in the course of the employing unit's
trade or business performed in any calendar quarter by an individual, unless
the cash remuneration paid for the service is $50 or more and the service is
performed by an individual who is regularly employed by the employing unit to
perform the service. For the purposes of this paragraph, an individual shall
be deemed to be regularly employed to perform service not in the course of an
employing unit's trade or business during a calendar quarter [only] if:
(A) On each of some twenty-four days during the quarter the individual performs the service for some portion of the day; or
(B) The individual was regularly employed as determined under subparagraph (A) by the employing unit in the performance of the service during the preceding calendar quarter;
(4) (A) Service performed on or in connection with a vessel not an American vessel, if the individual performing the service is employed on and in connection with the vessel when outside the United States;
(B) Service performed by an individual in (or as an officer or member of the crew of a vessel while it is engaged in) the catching, taking, harvesting, cultivating, or farming of any kind of fish, shellfish, crustacea, sponges, seaweeds, or other aquatic forms of animal and vegetable life, including service performed as an ordinary incident thereto, except:
(i) The service performed in connection with a vessel of more than ten net tons (determined in the manner provided for determining the register tonnage of merchant vessels under the laws of the United States);
(ii) The service performed in connection with a vessel of ten net tons or less (determined in the manner provided for determining the register tonnage of merchant vessels under the laws of the United States) by an individual who is employed by an employing unit which had in its employ one or more individuals performing the service for some portion of a day in each of twenty calendar weeks all occurring, whether consecutive or not, in either the current or the preceding calendar year; and
(iii) Service performed in connection with the catching or taking of salmon or halibut for commercial purposes;
(5) Service performed by an individual in the employ of the individual's son, daughter, or spouse, and service performed by a child under the age of twenty-one in the employ of the child's father or mother;
(6) Service performed in the employ of the United States government or an instrumentality of the United States exempt under the Constitution of the United States from the contributions imposed by this chapter, except that to the extent that the Congress of the United States permits states to require any instrumentalities of the United States to make payments into an unemployment fund under a state unemployment compensation law, all of the provisions of this chapter shall apply to those instrumentalities, and to services performed for those instrumentalities, in the same manner, to the same extent, and on the same terms as to all other employers, employing units, individuals, and services; provided that if this State is not certified for any year by the Secretary of Labor under section 3304(c) of the federal Internal Revenue Code, the payments required of those instrumentalities with respect to that year shall be refunded by the department of labor and industrial relations from the fund in the same manner and within the same period as is provided in section 383-76 with respect to contributions erroneously collected;
(7) Service performed in the employ of any other state, or any political subdivision thereof, or any instrumentality of any one or more of the foregoing which is wholly owned by one or more states or political subdivisions; and any service performed in the employ of any instrumentality of one or more other states or their political subdivisions to the extent that the instrumentality is, with respect to the service, exempt from the tax imposed by section 3301 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended;
(8) Service with respect to which unemployment compensation is payable under an unemployment system established by an act of Congress;
(9) (A) Service performed in any calendar quarter in the employ of any organization exempt from income tax under section 501(a) of the federal Internal Revenue Code (other than an organization described in section 401(a) or under section 521 of the Internal Revenue Code), if:
(i) The remuneration for the service is less than $50; or
(ii) The service is performed by a fully ordained, commissioned, or licensed minister of a church in the exercise of the minister's ministry or by a member of a religious order in the exercise of duties required by the order;
(B) Service performed in the employ of a school, college, or university, if the service is performed by a student who is enrolled and is regularly attending classes at the school, college, or university; or
(C) Service performed by an individual who is
enrolled at a nonprofit or public educational institution which normally
maintains a regular faculty and curriculum and normally has a regularly
organized body of students in attendance at the place where its educational
activities are carried on as a student in a full-time program, taken for credit
at [such] the institution, which combines academic instruction
with work experience, if [such] the service is an integral part
of such program, and [such] the institution has so certified to
the employer, except that this subparagraph shall not apply to service
performed in a program established for or on behalf of an employer or group of
employers;
(10) Service performed in the employ of a foreign
government [(], including service as a consular or other officer
or employee of a nondiplomatic representative[)];
(11) Service performed in the employ of an instrumentality wholly owned by a foreign government:
(A) If the service is of a character similar to that performed in foreign countries by employees of the United States government or of an instrumentality thereof; and
(B) If the United States Secretary of State has certified or certifies to the United States Secretary of the Treasury that the foreign government, with respect to whose instrumentality exemption is claimed, grants an equivalent exemption with respect to similar service performed in the foreign country by employees of the United States government and of instrumentalities thereof;
(12) Service performed as a student nurse in the employ of a hospital or a nurses' training school by an individual who is enrolled and is regularly attending classes in a nurses' training school chartered or approved pursuant to state law; and service performed as an intern in the employ of a hospital by an individual who has completed a four-year course in a medical school chartered or approved pursuant to state law;
(13) Service performed by an individual for an employing unit as an insurance producer, if all service performed by the individual for the employing unit is performed for remuneration solely by way of commission;
(14) Service performed by an individual under the age of eighteen in the delivery or distribution of newspapers or shopping news, not including delivery or distribution to any point for subsequent delivery or distribution;
(15) Service covered by an arrangement between the department and the agency charged with the administration of any other state or federal unemployment compensation law pursuant to which all services performed by an individual for an employing unit during the period covered by the employing unit's duly approved election, are deemed to be performed entirely within the agency's state;
(16) Service performed by an individual who, pursuant to the Federal Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, is not subject to the federal laws relating to unemployment compensation;
(17) Service performed by an individual for an employing unit as a real estate salesperson, if all service performed by the individual for the employing unit is performed for remuneration solely by way of commission;
(18) Service performed by a registered sales representative for a registered travel agency, when the service performed by the individual for the travel agent is performed for remuneration by way of commission;
(19) Service performed by a vacuum cleaner salesperson for an employing unit, if all services performed by the individual for the employing unit are performed for remuneration solely by way of commission;
(20) Service performed for a family-owned private corporation organized for profit that employs only members of the family who each own at least fifty per cent of the shares issued by the corporation; provided that:
(A) The private corporation elects to be excluded from coverage under this chapter;
(B) The election for exclusion shall apply to all shareholders and under the same circumstances;
(C) No more than two members of a family may be eligible per entity for exclusion under this paragraph;
(D) The exclusion shall be irrevocable for five years;
(E) The family-owned private corporation presents to the department proof that it has paid federal unemployment insurance taxes as required by federal law; and
(F) The election to be excluded from coverage shall be effective the first day of the calendar quarter in which the application and all substantiating documents requested by the department are filed with the department;
(21) Service performed by a direct seller as defined
in section 3508 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; [and]
(22) Service performed by an election official or
election worker as defined in section 3309(b)(3)(F) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended[.]; and
(23) Domestic service, which includes residential habilitation, personal habilitation/habilitation, skilled nursing, and respite services but excludes adult day health services, under the State of Hawaii medicaid DD-MR waiver program, as it is defined by the department of human services, performed by an individual:
(A) In the employ of an eligible recipient of social services; or
(B) Providing services to an eligible recipient of social services on behalf of a recipient of social service payments; under a contract between the individual and the recipient of social service payments that is presumed to be an independent contractor relationship unless the director can demonstrate that the individual is engaged in common law employer-employee relationship with the recipient of social service payments.
(b) None of the [foregoing] exclusions
[(1) to (22)] in subsection (a) shall apply to any service with
respect to which a tax is required to be paid under any federal law imposing a
tax against which credit may be taken for contributions required to be paid
into a state unemployment fund or which as a condition for full tax credit
against the tax imposed by the federal Unemployment Tax Act is required to be
covered under this chapter."
SECTION 6. Section 393-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§393-3 Definitions generally. As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
[(1)]
"Department" means the department of labor and industrial relations.
[(2)] "Director"
means the director of labor and industrial relations.
[(3)] "Employer"
means any individual or type of organization, including any partnership,
association, trust, estate, joint stock company, insurance company, or
corporation, whether domestic or foreign, a debtor in possession or receiver or
trustee in bankruptcy, or the legal representative of a deceased person, who
has one or more regular employees in the employer's employment.
"Employer" does not include:
[(A)]
(1) The State, any of its political subdivisions, or any
instrumentality of the State or its political subdivisions;
[(B)]
(2) The United States government or any instrumentality of the United States;
[(C)]
(3) Any other state or political subdivision thereof or
instrumentality of such state or political subdivision;
[(D)]
(4) Any foreign government or instrumentality wholly owned by a
foreign government, if [(i) the]:
(A)
The service performed in its employ is of a character similar to that
performed in foreign countries by employees of the United States government or
of an instrumentality thereof[,] and [(ii) the]
(B) The United States Secretary of State has certified or certifies to the United States Secretary of the Treasury that the foreign government, with respect to whose instrumentality exemption is claimed, grants an equivalent exemption with respect to similar service performed in the foreign country by employees of the United States government and of instrumentalities thereof.
[(4)] "Employment"
means service, including service in interstate commerce, performed for wages
under any contract of hire, written or oral, expressed or implied, with an
employer, except as otherwise provided in sections 393-4 and 393-5.
[(5)] "Premium"
means the amount payable to a prepaid health care plan contractor as
consideration for the contractor's obligations under a prepaid health care
plan.
[(6)] "Prepaid
health care plan" means any agreement by which any prepaid health care
plan contractor undertakes in consideration of a stipulated premium:
[(A)](1) Either
to furnish health care, including hospitalization, surgery, medical or nursing
care, drugs or other restorative appliances, subject to, if at all, only a
nominal per service charge; or
[(B)](2) To
defray or reimburse, in whole or in part, the expenses of health care.
[(7)] "Prepaid
health care plan contractor" means:
[(A)](1) Any
medical group or organization which undertakes under a prepaid health care plan
to provide health care; [or]
[(B)](2) Any
nonprofit organization which undertakes under a prepaid health care plan to defray
or reimburse in whole or in part the expenses of health care; or
[(C)](3) Any
insurer who undertakes under a prepaid health care plan to defray or reimburse
in whole or in part the expenses of health care.
"Recipient of social service payments" includes:
(1) A person who is an eligible recipient of social services such as attendant care and day care services; and
(2) A corporation or private agency that contracts directly with the department of human services to provide attendant care and day care authorized under the Social Security Act, as amended.
[(8)]
"Regular employee" means a person employed in the employment of any
one employer for at least twenty hours per week but does not include a person
employed in seasonal employment. "Seasonal employment" for the
purposes of this paragraph means employment in a seasonal pursuit as defined in
section 387-1 by a seasonal employer during a seasonal period or seasonal
periods for the employer in the seasonal pursuit or employment by an employer engaged
in the cultivating, harvesting, processing, canning, and warehousing of
pineapple during its seasonal periods. The director by rule and regulation may
determine the kind of employment that constitutes seasonal employment.
[(9)] "Wages"
means all remuneration for services from whatever source, including
commissions, bonuses, and tips and gratuities paid directly to any individual
by a customer of the individual's employer, and the cash value of all
remuneration in any medium other than cash.
The director may issue regulations for the reasonable determination of the cash value of remuneration in any medium other than cash.
If the employee does not account to the employee's employer for the tips and gratuities received and is engaged in an occupation in which the employee customarily and regularly receives more than $20 a month in tips, the combined amount received by the employee from the employee's employer and from tips shall be deemed to be at least equal to the wage required by chapter 387 or a greater sum as determined by regulation of the director.
"Wages" does not include the amount of any payment specified in section 383-11 or 392-22 or chapter 386."
SECTION 7. If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is contrary to federal law, that provision or any application thereof to any person or circumstance shall be invalid; provided that the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the Act, which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this Act are severable.
SECTION 8. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 9. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2059.