Bill Text: HI HB2576 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Employment Security

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-04-11 - (S) Act 013, 4/10/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1113). [HB2576 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2576-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  209-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2576

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2576 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY LAW,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to maintain uniformity in the unemployment insurance contribution rate notice appeals process by clarifying that an appeal by an employer of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations' determination of an unemployment insurance rate contribution must first be appealed to the Employment Security Appeals Referees' Office rather than directly to the circuit court.

 

     The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations testified in support of this measure.

 

     Currently, when an employer is unsatisfied with the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations' unemployment insurance rate contribution calculation, the employer has 15 days after the mailing of the contribution rate notice to file an appeal of the Department's decision with the Employment Security Appeals Referees' Office.  If the employer is not satisfied with the decision rendered by the Employment Security Appeals Referees' Office, the employer can then appeal the decision to the circuit court.  Your Committee notes that, although this is the procedure currently in place, the Department has stated that current statutory provisions in place have caused some confusion as to whether the initial appeal is made to the Employment Security Appeals Referees' Office or directly to the circuit court.  This measure clarifies the appeals process.

 

     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. 2576 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business.

 

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair