Bill Text: HI HB166 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Occupational Safety and Health

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB166 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB166-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 166

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 166 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH LAW,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to protect the health and safety of workers by raising the amounts of the civil penalties and criminal fines for violations of the Hawaii Occupational Safety and Health Law (HOSHL).

 

     The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and the Hawaii Laborers' Union supported this bill.  The Roofing Contractors Association of Hawaii opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by increasing the existing civil-penalty and criminal-fine amounts by ten percent.

 

     Hawaii's economy is still recovering from the recent recession.  The civil penalties and criminal fines imposed for violations of the HOSHL are paid by businesses and may prove to be a hardship for them, especially small businesses.  However, your Committee recognizes that worker safety must remain paramount and notes that the last time the penalties and fines were raised was approximately 18 years ago.

 

     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. 166, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 166, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

		____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair