H.B. 634 Summary

• Require the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to open at least one in-person employment office in Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui counties, and at least two offices in Honolulu County (in Waipahu and Honolulu).

• Direct state library staff to provide minimal assistance to individuals filing unemployment insurance claims using public access computers, with the unemployment claims webpage bookmarked on all browsers and at least one dedicated computer per library.

• Require the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to hire, assign, or reassign staff to increase unemployment claims processing capacity by thirty percent.

• Allocate $10,000,000 to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations for upgrading and modernizing the unemployment claims computer system, with completion required within six months of the Act's effective date.