THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2009

 

COMMITTEE ON LABOR

Senator Dwight Y. Takamine, Chair

Senator Brian T. Taniguchi, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

TIME:

2:45 p.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 224

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 1664

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY.

Adds definitions relating to partial unemployment and sets out claimants' eligibility, claims filing, and registration requirements, and employers' reporting requirements for partial unemployment.

 

LBR, WAM

SB 642

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Requires personnel directors to ensure that adjustments (including changes in wages and health and retirement benefits) for excluded civil service employees are at least equal to adjustments provided under collective bargaining agreements with counterparts within the employer's jurisdiction.

 

LBR, WAM

SB 62

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Requires independent medical examinations and permanent impairment rating examinations to be performed by physicians mutually agreed upon by employers and employees or appointed by the director of labor and industrial relations.

 

LBR

SB 63

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Requires an employer to pay temporary total disability benefits regardless of whether the employer controverts the right to benefits.  Specifies that the employee's ability to return to work is to be decided by the employee's treating physician.  Convenes a working group.  Effective upon approval for the convening of the working group; 7/1/10 if there is no consensus among the working group.

 

LBR, WAM

SB 695

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Requires the employer to continue medical services to an injured employee despite disputes over whether treatment should be continued, until the director of labor and industrial relations decides whether treatment should be continued.

 

LBR

SB 688

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT.

Establishes job security requirements upon the divestiture of a covered establishment.

 

LBR

SB 1125

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Requires all offerors and subcontractors for construction contracts subject to the state public procurement code, to maintain or participate in a bona fide, state-approved apprenticeship program at the time of general bidding.

 

LBR, JGO

 

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

FOR AMENDED HEARING NOTICES:  If the notice is an amended notice, measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If there is a measure that is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

Persons wishing to testify should submit testimony in one of the following ways by 4:00 p.m. the day prior to the hearing:

 

·         By Email:  Testimony may be emailed if less than 5 pages in length, to the Committee at [email protected] .  Please indicate the measure, date and time of the hearing. Email sent to individual offices or any other Senate office will not be accepted.

 

·         By Web: Testimony may be submitted online if less than 4MB in size, at http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/emailtestimony.

 

·         In person:  1 copy of their testimony to the committee clerk, Room 204, State Capitol.

 

·         By fax:  Testimony may be faxed if less than 5 pages in length, to the Senate Sergeant-At-Arms Office at 586-6659 or 1-800-586-6659 (toll free for neighbor islands), at least 24 hours prior to the hearing.  When faxing, please indicate to which committee the testimony is being submitted and the date and time of the hearing.

 

Please note:  If you submit your written testimony after 4:30 p.m. the day prior to the hearing, please sign-in at the staff table to testify orally.  A copy of your testimony may not be available during the hearing but will be posted online for the public after the hearing. 

 

If you require special assistance or auxiliary aids or services to participate in the public hearing process (i.e., sign or foreign language interpreter or wheelchair accessibility), please contact the committee clerk 24 hours prior to the hearing so arrangements can be made.

 

Please note:  All testimony received by the Hawaii Senate will be posted on the Hawaii Legislature's Website.  Documents made available through the Testimony hyperlink(s) above may not be posted until the start of the hearing.

 

Public Folder.  A folder labeled “Public Folder” containing the measures and testimonies for the hearing will be available for shared use by members of the public.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 586-6918.

 

 

 

 

 

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Senator Dwight Y. Takamine

Chair