HI HCR82

Department of Labor and Industrial Relations currently bases workers' compensation benefit calculations for surviving beneficiaries using an actuarial table created in 1963, according to testimony before the Senate Committee on Labor and Technology on February 15, 2023

Requests the department to research current actuarial data and population studies to create updated materials for assessing benefit amounts for surviving spouses, children, parents, and grandparents under Hawaii's workers' compensation law

Requests the department to establish updated standards for distinguishing wholly dependent beneficiaries from partially dependent beneficiaries, whose benefit calculations differ under Hawaii Revised Statutes section 386-41

Department must deliver a report with research results and recommendations for revising weekly benefit amounts to the President of the Senate, Speaker of the House, and relevant committee chairs no later than thirty days before the 2024 Regular Session convenes

Report should include suggested legislation necessary to implement any adjustments to workers' compensation benefits based on updated actuarial findings