Bill Text: HI HB1125 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Trust Funds; Automation of Disability Compensation Division

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB1125 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1125-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  919

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1125

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1125, 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 of this bill is to:

 

(1)  Implement the Auditor's recommendation to reclassify certain special funds relating to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) by reclassifying the Unemployment Compensation Fund, Special Compensation Fund, Disability Benefits Fund, and Premium Supplementation Fund from special funds to trust funds; and

 

(2)  Improve the efficiency of the DLIR's Disability Compensation Division (DCD) by appropriating funds from the Disability Benefits Fund for the automation of the Workers' Compensation, Prepaid Health Care, and Temporary Disability Insurance programs of DCD.

 

     DLIR testified in support of this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Changing the amount of funds appropriated from the Disability Benefits Fund from $5,000,000 for the automation of the Workers' Compensation, Temporary Disability Insurance, and Prepaid Health Care programs to an unspecified amount;

 

(2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

(3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1125, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1125, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair