Bill Text: HI HB2574 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Notification of Chapter 91 Hearing; Department of Labor and Industrial Relations

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-10 - (S) Act 261, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1364). [HB2574 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2574-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3283

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2574

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2574, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NOTIFICATION OF CHAPTER 91 HEARINGS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board to provide notice to parties by first class mail instead of registered or certified mail.  This measure also authorizes the board to provide notice of a hearing by publication in a newspaper of general circulation.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board.

 

     Your Committee finds that the state workers' compensation system has suffered budget constraints over the past few years.  Authorizing the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board to provide notices of hearings conducted pursuant to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by first class mail will result in cost savings that can be applied to other areas of operations, including increasing the overall efficiency of the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2574, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair