HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
THE THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2023
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Rep. Scot Z. Matayoshi, Chair |
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Rep. Andrew Takuya Garrett, Vice Chair |
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Rep. Jeanne Kapela |
Rep. Adrian K. Tam |
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Rep. Rose Martinez |
Rep. David Alcos III |
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Rep. Jackson D. Sayama |
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NOTICE OF HEARING
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023 |
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9:30AM |
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VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE Conference Room 309 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
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RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Ensures that employment, work, and pay eligible for the purpose of calculating retirement benefits includes retroactive reinstatement, retroactive recission of suspension, retroactive pay differential, and back pay that are restored to an employee as part of an administrative, arbitral, or judicial proceeding. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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LGO, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO EQUITY. Requires all places of public accommodation and state building construction constructed after 12/31/23 to provide universal changing accommodations that are equally accessible to men and women. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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LGO, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Authorizes wages of other employees in comparable employment to be considered when computing the average weekly wages of an injured public board member, reserve police officer, police chaplain, sheriffs' chaplain, volunteer firefighter, volunteer boating enforcement officer, or volunteer conservation and resources enforcement officer. Clarifies computation of average weekly wages of an injured volunteer firefighter for workers' compensation benefits purposes. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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LGO, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH. Establishes the workforce safety and health special fund. Directs certain fees and penalties to be deposited into the special fund. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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LGO, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT. Appropriates funds for the enhancement of technology resources for the Department of Human Resources Development. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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LGO, FIN |
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RELATING TO TELEWORKING. Requires and appropriates moneys for the Department of Human Resources Development to submit an annual report to the Legislature on the telework policies of the executive branch. Establishes requirements and appropriates moneys for a telework monitoring system to assess the productivity of telework employees. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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LGO, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT. Repeals the Administrative Assistant position within the Department of Human Resources Development. Reassigns the responsibilities of the Administrative Assistant to the Director. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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LGO, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. Appropriates funds for the retention of employees of the Unemployment Insurance Division of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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LGO, FIN |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (5) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2023-2025. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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LGO, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE REPEAL OF ACT 192, SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII 2007. Repeals Act 192, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, which requires the Employees' Retirement System to divest itself of investments in companies that provide support for genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and provide annual reports to the Legislature on the status of divestment. (SD2)
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LGO, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Enables the Board of Trustees of the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund to establish appropriate salaries for the Administrator and Chief Investment Officer of the trust fund. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. Amends chapter 202, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), to be consistent with the General Appropriations Act of 2021, Act 88, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021. Renames "Hawaii Workforce Development Council" to "Hawaii Workforce Development Board". Requires the Hawaii Workforce Development Board and local workforce development boards to develop written conflict of interest policies consistent with federal law and regulations. Requires the Governor to select the chairperson of the board from among the seventeen private sector members. Requires the Hawaii Workforce Development Board to assist the Governor in the coordinating of local workforce development boards in improving and developing a statewide workforce development system. Repeals the requirement for the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to submit an annual report to the Legislature on the activities of the K-12 Agriculture Workforce Development Pipeline Initiative. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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________________________________________ Rep. Scot Z. Matayoshi Chair |
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