STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2231

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2810

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2810 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT EXEMPTION FOR DOMESTIC SERVICES AUTHORIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the definition of "employment" in the workers' compensation, temporary disability insurance, and prepaid health care statutes by clarifying the domestic services exclusion for services authorized by the Department of Human Services.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services and two individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that sections 386-1, 392-5, and 393-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, exempt developmentally and intellectually disabled recipients of social service payments from providing workers' compensation, temporary disability insurance, and prepaid health care.  This measure will provide further clarification and consistency by also exempting the Department of Human Services, aged and disabled recipients of home and community-based services, and recipients of state-funded home and community-based services, from having to provide workers' compensation, temporary disability insurance, and prepaid health care due to the provision of these services.

 

     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 S.B. No. 2810 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

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

 

		____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair