STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3246

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2579

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 2579 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to temporarily allow compromises for workers' compensation claims reached as a result of third party liability claims or actions to be valid without the approval of the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations.

 

     Your Committee did not receive written testimony on this measure.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations reviews and approves all compromises related to workers' compensation claims.  This measure will assist in the reduction of the number of third party generated compromises that are pending approval by the Director and expedite the entire process of review and approval of compromises.

 

     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. 2579, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 


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

 

 

 

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair