Bill Text: HI HB2202 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Online Registration Requirements; Unemployment Insurance

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-08 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting no (0) and Carroll, Magaoay, Sagum excused (3). [HB2202 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2202-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  175-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2202

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2202 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to assist unemployed individuals who do not have Internet access or are unfamiliar with conventions of the Internet by prohibiting the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) from requiring individuals to register their availability to work online.

 

     The ILWU Local 142, United Public Workers AFSCME Local 646 AFL-CIO, and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill.  DLIR opposed this measure.

 

     Under current law, claimants for unemployment insurance benefits are required to post job availability information that includes, among other things, the claimant's name, job skills, education, training, prior employment history, and other relevant occupational information.  This "online resume" is intended to serve as a tool for helping claimants seek new employment.  However, it also poses a disadvantage to claimants who do not have Internet access or are unfamiliar with using the Internet and may result in these claimants not receiving unemployment benefits in a timely manner.

 

     However, your Committee notes DLIR's contention that Internet job matching is the most efficient method of matching a jobseeker's skills and interests with an employer's needs and available employment, which is beneficial to all parties involved.  Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the provisions prohibiting DLIR from requiring individuals to register their availability to work online;

 

     (2)  Inserting language that requires DLIR to either:

 

          (A)  Allow an individual to post the required information independently on the department's Internet job-matching system; or

 

          (B)  Accept relevant occupational information provided by the individual on a document prescribed by the department and enter the necessary information on the department's Internet job-matching system for the individual;

 

     (3)  Deleting language repealing the definitions of "registered for work" or "registration for work"; and

 

     (4)  Deleting language requiring DLIR to adopt, modify, and repeal rules of general application to address the prohibition.

 

     Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this

report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2202, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2202, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

		____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair