STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1358

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1186

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor, Culture and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 1186, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

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 disability compensation division modernization project, unemployment insurance modernization project, administration of the Hawaii employment security law, and positions in the Disability Compensation Division, Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board, and Wage Standards Division.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure expresses adjustments to the programs or positions included, maximum sums appropriated or authorized, or means of financing indicated for the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations in the General Appropriations Act of 2017, as amended by the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2018.

 

     Your Committee notes that S.B. 797, S.D. 1 (Regular Session of 2019), which was previously passed by your Committee, also appropriates funds to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations for programs or positions.  Your Committee notes the testimony of the Department on Labor and Industrial Relations suggesting that certain sections of S.B. 797, S.D. 1 be included in this measure.  Your Committee concludes that the language in S.B. 797, S.D. 1 is preferable because it contains the specific language requested by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and provides for the appropriation of funds for additional Department of Labor and Industrial Relations' programs and positions.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its contents and replacing it with the contents of S.B. 797, S.D. 1, which appropriates funds for various operating expenses of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor, Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1186, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1186, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor, Culture and the Arts,

 

 

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair