STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2013

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2215

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2215 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DISABILITY COMPENSATION DIVISION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations for the hiring of six hearing officer positions and support staff within the Department's Disability Compensation Division and to provide the officers and staff with legal and medical training.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Resources Development, Department of Human Resources of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii Injured Workers Association, ILWU Local 142, Pacific Resource Partnership, and one individual.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

 

     Implementation of this measure will enable the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations' Disability Compensation Division to be more efficient and effective, benefiting all stakeholders.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of January 7, 2059, to encourage further discussion.

 

     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 S.B. No. 2215, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2215, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

 

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

 

 

 

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair