STAND. COM. REP. NO. 342

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 797

       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 S.B. No. 797 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 or authorize funds, amend positions, or amend means of financing for various operating expenses of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

 

     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 has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the appropriation amount for the unemployment insurance modernization project by decreasing it from $2,000,000 to $1,000,000 in the second year of the fiscal biennium;

 

     (2)  Changing the appropriation amount for neighbor island staffing and IT support for the unemployment insurance division by decreasing it from $4,000,000 to $3,000,000; and

 

     (3)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     Your Committee's intent in recommending this measure for passage is for the adjustments expressed to be incorporated into the General Appropriations Act of 2019 or other appropriate legislative vehicle or to be adopted separately.  As such, your Committee requests your Committee on Ways and Means to incorporate the adjustments expressed by this measure into the appropriate legislative vehicle or amend this measure to include any provisions necessary to effectuate its purpose and intent.

 

     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 S.B. No. 797, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 797, 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