STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1032

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 877

      S.D. 1

      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 S.B. No. 877, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH HEARINGS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to provide parties with written notice of a hearing by first class mail and to clarify the powers of the Board, including to compel testimony and the production of evidence and to sanction misconduct, in conducting hearings.

 

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

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to upon approval.

 

     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 S.B. No. 877, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 877, S.D. 1, 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,

 

 

		____________________________ MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair