KA ‘AHA KENEKOA
THE THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2024
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Senator Henry J.C. Aquino, Chair |
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Senator Sharon Y. Moriwaki, Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF HEARING
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DATE: |
Wednesday, February 7, 2024 |
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3:00 PM |
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Conference Room 224 & Videoconference State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
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The Legislature is accepting written, videoconference, and in-person testimony at public hearings.
A live stream of all Senate Standing Committee meetings will be available on the Senate YouTube Channel.
A G E N D A
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RELATING TO THE WAGE AND HOUR LAW. Amends the definition of "employee" in Hawaii's wage and hour law by repealing the definition's categorical exclusion of any employee who receives guaranteed compensation totaling $2,000 or more a month. Makes technical non substantive amendments.
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LBT, WAM |
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RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS. Allows striking workers to be eligible for unemployment benefits.
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LBT, WAM/JDC |
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RELATED TO ELECTRONIC INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY. Requires the Office of Enterprise Technology to develop multilingual accessibility standards. Appropriates funds to establish one full-time position to develop multilingual accessibility standards within the Office of Enterprise Technology Services. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
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LBT, WAM |
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RELATING TO TIPPED EMPLOYEES. Repeals the authority of employers to pay tipped employees less than the minimum wage.
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LBT, WAM |
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RELATING TO IMMIGRATION. Establishes within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations' Office of Community Services the Immigration Services and Access Unit. Declares that the general fund expenditure is exceeded. Makes an appropriation.
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LBT, WAM |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SERVICE. Authorizes the temporary assignment of permanent legislative staff during the interim to executive or judicial branch agencies. Establishes that while on temporary assignment, the temporarily assigned employee is still considered an employee of the Legislature and exempt from civil service.
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LBT, JDC/WAM |
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MAKING EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Makes emergency appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Units (1) and (10) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2023-2025.
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LBT, WAM |
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MAKING EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Makes emergency appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Units (2), (3), (4), (9), (13), and (14) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2023-2025.
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LBT, WAM |
Decision Making to follow, if time permits.
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For amended notices: Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored. If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.
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_____________________________________ Senator Henry J.C. Aquino Chair |
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