STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1343

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.C.R. No. 215
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Government Operations and Housing, to
which was referred S.C.R. No. 215 entitled:

     "SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE STATE TO
     DISALLOW STATE EMPLOYEES FROM DRIVING HOME STATE-OWNED
     VEHICLES,"

begs leave to report as follows:
     
     The purpose of this measure is to request the Department of
Accounting and General Services to disallow state employees from
driving home state-owned vehicles unless the nature of their job
makes it vitally important that they do so.

     Your Committee received comments on this measure from the
Department of Accounting and General Services.

     Your Committee finds that while only two hundred of the
4,500 state vehicles are taken home by state employees, this
still represents a potentially costly liability problem for the
State, which should be addressed.  Your Committee is particularly
concerned that the State can ill afford any additional costs in
the face of Hawaii's continuing economic constraints.

     Your Committee has amended this measure to:

     (1)  Add three additional Whereas clauses concerning the
          detrimental effect of liability costs, the kinds of
          vehicles being driven to and from work, and the
          necessity for better monitoring; and

 
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     (2)  Add the use of a state-owned vehicle in case of an
          emergency in the first Be It Resolved clause.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Government Operations and Housing that is attached
to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and
purpose of S.C.R. No. 215, as amended herein, and recommends that
it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form
attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 215, S.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Government
                                   Operations and Housing,



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                                   ROD TAM, Chair

 
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