REPORT TITLE:
Civil Service; Police


DESCRIPTION:
Requires county civil service director to certify up to five
eligibles for each police officer vacancy.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           2402
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO CIVIL SERVICE LAW.


BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 76-23, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
 
 3      "(b)  Whenever there is a position to be filled, the
 
 4 appointing authority shall request the director of human
 
 5 resources development to submit a list of eligibles.  The
 
 6 director shall thereupon certify a list of five or such fewer
 
 7 number as may be available, taken from eligible lists in the
 
 8 following order:  first the promotional lists, second the recall
 
 9 lists, third the reemployment lists, and fourth the open-
 
10 competitive lists; provided that laid-off regular employees shall
 
11 be placed on an appropriate recall list; provided further that
 
12 with respect to the eligibles under unskilled classes, the
 
13 director shall certify all of the eligibles on such list.  Where
 
14 there is more than one vacant position in a class to be filled,
 
15 the director may certify an additional eligible for each
 
16 additional vacancy[.]; provided that for police recruits, the
 
17 director shall certify additional eligibles, not exceeding five
 
18 additional eligibles for each vacancy.  The director shall submit
 
19 eligibles in the order that they appear on the eligible list
 
20 before applying veteran's preference; provided that veterans
 

 
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 1 whose examination scores, after addition of applicable
 
 2 preference, are equal to or exceed the examination score of the
 
 3 last eligible certified, shall also be certified; and further
 
 4 provided that if the last eligible to be certified is one of two
 
 5 or more eligibles who have identical examination scores, those
 
 6 two or more eligibles shall be certified notwithstanding the fact
 
 7 that more than five persons are thereby certified to fill a
 
 8 vacancy; and further provided that for each eligible without
 
 9 resident preference certified, a resident who has filed a
 
10 resident income tax return within the State or who has been
 
11 claimed as a dependent on a resident income tax return, as
 
12 provided by section 78-1, shall also be certified."
 
13      SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
14 New statutory material is underscored.
 
15      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
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17                       INTRODUCED BY:  ___________________________