STAND. COM. REP. NO. 383
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2015
RE: H.B. No. 1268
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2015
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1268 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to facilitate Hawaii workers' compensation law by:
(1) Requiring the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to determine if the positions of state employees receiving workers' compensation benefits should remain vacant for one year or longer;
(2) Providing for the filling and funding of temporary vacant positions to fill the State employee's position while the employee is incapacitated; and
(3) Establishing the Workers' Compensation Temporary Vacancy Special Fund.
Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing its contents with provisions that help coordinate the efficient use of public employer return to work programs in accordance with the workers' compensation law by requiring eligible injured public employees to take part in an employer's return to work program as a prerequisite to vocational rehabilitation benefits.
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. 1268, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1268, 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,
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____________________________ MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair |
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