Bill Text: HI SB2050 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Vocational Rehabilitation; Workers' Compensation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-04-13 - (S) Act 018, 4/13/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 474). [SB2050 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2050-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2379

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2050

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2050 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION IN WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify the steps that must be taken to develop a vocational rehabilitation plan under the workers' compensation law.

 

     Specifically, this measure requires a provider to determine if modified or other work for an injured worker with the worker's same employer represents suitable gainful employment under a rehabilitation plan.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by one state agency, four private organizations, and one individual.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that a primary component of an injured worker's rehabilitation plan is to find suitable gainful employment for the injured worker with the worker's same employer.  Your Committee also finds that injured workers are returned to work more rapidly with their original employer, especially if placed in a new or modified job position that is consistent with the injured worker's physical or mental limitations.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2050 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair