Bill Text: HI SB2324 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Unemployment Benefits; Disqualification; Part-time Work

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2010-07-06 - (S) Vetoed on 07-06-10 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 669). [SB2324 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2324-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2524

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2324

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2324, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify that a claimant receiving partial unemployment benefits is not disqualified from receiving benefits upon separating from an employer that offers only part-time employment.

 

     Your Committee finds that an employee who normally works full-time is entitled to receive partial unemployment benefits when the employee's hours are reduced.  Your Committee believes that the unemployment insurance laws should not penalize the employee for voluntarily seeking part-time employment elsewhere to supplement those partial unemployment benefits.  Accordingly, your Committee further finds that if the employee should terminate from the part-time employer, the employee should not be disqualified from receiving benefits.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on this measure; and

 

     (2)  Making technical amendments to the measure including adding relevant definitions from Act 170, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009 to the measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2324, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2324, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair