Bill Text: HI HB602 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Workers' Compensation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB602 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB602-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  912

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 602

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 602 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to extend the exemption from workers' compensation insurance to services performed by:

 

(1)  A partner of a partnership, if the partner is an individual;

 

(2)  A sole proprietor for the sole proprietorship; and

 

(3)  Members of a Limited Liability Company (LLC) or Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) who own 50 percent or more of the LLC or LLP.

 

     The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations; The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii; The Hawaii Business League; Integrated Economic Solutions, LLC.; Retail Merchants of Hawaii; National Federation of Independent Business – Hawaii; and Hawaii Independent Insurance Agents Association supported this bill.  The ILWU Local 142 opposed this bill.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 602 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair