§383-106  What reciprocal arrangementsauthorized.  (a)  The department of labor and industrial relations mayenter into reciprocal arrangements with appropriate and duly authorizedagencies of other states or of the federal government, or both, whereby:

(1)  Multistate employment.  Services performed by anindividual for a single employing unit for which services are customarilyperformed in more than one state shall be deemed to be services performedentirely within any one of the states:

(A)  In which any part of the individual'sservice is performed, or

(B)  In which the individual has theindividual's residence, or

(C)  In which the employing unit maintains aplace of business; provided there is in effect, as to such services, anelection, approved by the agency charged with the administration of the state'sunemployment compensation law, pursuant to which all the services performed bythe individual for the employing unit are deemed to be performed entirelywithin the state;

(2)  Accumulated benefit rights.  Potential rights tobenefits accumulated under the unemployment compensation laws of one or morestates or under one or more such laws of the federal government, or both, mayconstitute the basis for payment of benefits through a single appropriateagency under terms which the department finds will be fair and reasonable as toall affected interests and will not result in any substantial loss to the fund;

(3)  Insured work.  Wages or services, upon the basisof which an individual may become entitled to benefits under an unemploymentcompensation law of another state or of the federal government, shall be deemedto be wages for insured work for the purpose of determining the individual'srights to benefits under this chapter, and wages for insured work, on the basisof which an individual may become entitled to benefits under this chapter shallbe deemed to be wages or services on the basis of which unemploymentcompensation under such law of another state or of the federal government ispayable, but no such arrangement shall be entered into unless it containsprovisions for reimbursements to the fund for such of the benefits paid underthis chapter upon the basis of such wages or services and provisions forreimbursements from the fund for such of the compensation paid under such otherlaw upon the basis of wages for insured work, as the department finds will befair and reasonable as to all affected interests; and

(4)  Payment of contributions.  Contributions dueunder this chapter with respect to wages for insured work shall for thepurposes of sections 383-61 to 383-75 of this chapter be deemed to have beenpaid to the fund as of the date payment was made as contributions thereforunder another state or federal unemployment compensation law, but no sucharrangement shall be entered into unless it contains provisions for suchreimbursement to the fund of such contributions and the actual earnings thereonas the department finds will be fair and reasonable as to all affectedinterests.

(b)  The provisions of subsection (a)(2) ofthis section and of section 383-107 notwithstanding, the department of laborand industrial relations shall participate in any arrangements for the paymentof compensation on the basis of combining an individual's wages and employmentcovered under this chapter with the individual's wages and employment coveredunder the unemployment compensation laws of other states which are approved bythe United States Secretary of Labor in consultation with the stateunemployment compensation agencies as reasonably calculated to assure theprompt and full payment of compensation in such situations and which includeprovisions for:

(1)  Applying the base period of a single state law toa claim involving the combining of an individual's wages and employment coveredunder two or more state unemployment compensation laws, and

(2)  Avoiding the duplicate use of wages andemployment by reason of such combining. [L 1939, c 219, §17; am L 1941, c 304,§1, pt of subs 37; RL 1945, §4294; RL 1955, §93-105; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §27;HRS §383-106; am L 1971, c 187, §10; gen ch 1985]