STAND. COM. REP. NO. 968

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 928

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 928, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CERTAIN FUNDS UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify the classification of certain funds of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations as trust funds.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Office of the Auditor, and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that Auditor Report No. 12-10 found, among other things, that certain funds administered by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations were classified and operating inconsistently from their statutory designation.  The State Auditor recommended that the Department clarify the classification of these funds.  By reclassifying certain special funds of the Department as trust funds, this measure will avoid any confusion in the proper administration of these funds.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that this measure proposes to reclassify four, not five, funds of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 928, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 928, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

 

 

 

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair