Bill Text: HI HB922 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Workers' Compensation Medical Treatment; Decisions Without a Hearing
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-21 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to WAM. [HB922 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-HB922-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 146
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2013
RE: H.B. No. 922
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 922 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAL BENEFITS UNDER THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Requiring the consent of both parties if the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations makes a decision without a hearing regarding a proposed treatment plan or whether medical services should be continued; and
(2) Adding a sunset date of June 30, 2015.
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. 922, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 922, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,
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____________________________ MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair |
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