Bill Text: HI HB1913 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Unemployment Insurance

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-03 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on LAB with none voting no (0) and none excused (0). [HB1913 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1913-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  63-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1913

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1913 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to assist domestic violence victims by making the fear of domestic or sexual violence a good cause for not accepting otherwise suitable, available work while the individual receives unemployment benefits.

 

     The Domestic Violence Action Center and a concerned individual supported this bill.  The Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu supported this measure with amendments.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Providing that DLIR may consult documentation already provided by domestic violence victims for unemployment benefits to confirm the good cause exemption allowed by this bill;

 

     (2)  Explicitly providing that DLIR may determine, at reasonable intervals, if the victim continues to qualify for the good cause exemption; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1913, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1913, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Labor & Public Employment.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

 

		____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair