STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1791

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 1046
                                     S.D. 3
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No.
1046, S.D. 3, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM FOR
     PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to modernize the State's civil
service by:

     (1)  Requiring the Director of Human Resources Development
          to establish a task force and work collaboratively with
          the task force to modernize current civil service laws;
          and

     (2)  Repealing chapters 76 to 82, Hawaii Revised Statutes,
          on June 30, 2000, provided that the Legislature has
          adopted replacement legislation, drafted by the task
          force, by June 29, 2000.

     The Department of Human Resources Development, the
Judiciary, the Hawaii Government Employees Association, and the
Hawaii Health Systems Corporation testified in support of this
bill.  The United Public Workers testified in support of the
intent of this bill.


 
 
 
 
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     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Deleting the monthly progress report requirement; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for
          consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
1046, S.D. 3, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it
pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1046,
S.D. 3, H.D. 2.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Finance,



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair