STAND. COM. REP. NO.  750

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 951

      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 Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 951 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NOTICE OF HEARING BY THE LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS APPEALS BOARD,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board (Board) the option to provide a notice of hearing by online posting on the Board's webpage if service by first class mail is returned as undeliverable.  

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and the Board supported this measure.  The Disability and Communication Access Board and an individual commented on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by specifying that the posting of a Board hearing notice online may be removed from the the Board's webpage no less than five business days after the date of the hearing.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 951, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 951, H.D. 1.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair