HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

THE THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2022

 

COMMITTEE ON LABOR & TOURISM

Rep. Richard H.K. Onishi, Chair

Rep. Jackson D. Sayama, Vice Chair

 

Rep. Della Au Belatti

Rep. Sean Quinlan

Rep. Daniel Holt

Rep. Gregg Takayama

Rep. Dale T. Kobayashi

Rep. Val Okimoto

 

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

DATE:

Thursday, February 3, 2022

TIME:

9:30 A.M.

PLACE:

VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE

Conference Room 312

State Capitol

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A G E N D A

 

HB 2081

Status

RELATING TO EMPLOYER INFORMATION.

Amends section 201-13.8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to collect and analyze employer information and data.

 

LAT, CPC, JHA

HB 2448

Status

RELATING TO A STATEWIDE DATA HUB.

Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish and maintain a statewide data hub to collect employer and employee data.  Creates positions.  Appropriates funds.

 

LAT, CPC, FIN

HB 2447

Status

RELATING TO SAFETY.

Establishes a new regulatory regime for boiler inspectors and elevator inspectors, including the creation of a boiler and elevator inspectors board.  Transfers the regulation of boiler inspectors and elevator inspectors from the department of labor and industrial relations to the board.  Clarifies that any inspection required under the Boiler and Elevator Safety Law, including inspections required to be done by the department, may be directed to be completed by licensed qualified boiler inspectors or licensed qualified elevator inspectors.

 

LAT, CPC, FIN

HB 2158

Status

RELATING TO THE BOILER AND ELEVATOR SAFETY LAW.

Allows the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to permit owner-user inspectors in the exclusive employment of owner-user inspection organizations to perform inspections on pressure retaining items and extends the time from ten to thirteen years for the Director to reimburse the general fund from the Boiler and Elevator Revolving Fund.

 

LAT, CPC, FIN

HB 2469

Status

RELATING TO THE UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION TRUST FUND.

Establishes an unemployment compensation insolvency special fund to be expended solely to resolve an unemployment compensation trust fund insolvency emergency declared by the Governor.  Permits the Governor to declare an unemployment compensation trust fund insolvency emergency and to expend moneys from the fund if the Director of Finance determines that the fund balance is insufficient to meet the State's obligations.  Appropriates moneys into the unemployment compensation insolvency special fund.

 

LAT, CPC, FIN

HB 1852

Status

RELATING TO THE UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION TRUST FUND.

Appropriates funds for the unemployment compensation trust fund.

 

LAT, CPC, FIN

HB 2471

Status

RELATING TO THE ADEQUATE RESERVE FUND.

Amends the definition of "adequate reserve fund" to exclude the benefit cost rate from June 2020 through August 2021, effective for calendar years 2023 through 2030.

 

LAT, CPC, FIN

 

 

 

 

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Rep. Richard H.K. Onishi

Chair