Transfers the child support enforcement agency to the department of budget and finance.

A BILL FOR AN ACT

SECTION 1. Section 576D-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§576D-2 Designation of child support enforcement agency; duties. There is created the child support enforcement agency for the State as required under Title IV-D. [The] Until July 1, 2002, the agency shall be within the department of the attorney general. From July 1, 2002, the agency shall be within the department of budget and finance. The child support enforcement agency shall:

SECTION 2. All rights, powers, functions, and duties of the child support enforcement agency are transferred to the department of budget and finance.

All officers and employees whose functions are transferred by this Act shall be transferred with their functions and shall continue to perform their regular duties upon their transfer, subject to the state personnel laws and this Act.

No officer or employee of the State having tenure shall suffer any loss of salary, seniority, prior service credit, vacation, sick leave, or other employee benefit or privilege as a consequence of this Act, and such officer or employee may be transferred or appointed to a civil service position without the necessity of examination; provided that the officer or employee possesses the minimum qualifications for the position to which transferred or appointed; and provided that subsequent changes in status may be made pursuant to applicable civil service and compensation laws.

An officer or employee of the State who does not have tenure and who may be transferred or appointed to a civil service position as a consequence of this Act shall become a civil service employee without the loss of salary, seniority, prior service credit, vacation, sick leave, or other employee benefits or privileges and without the necessity of examination; provided that such officer or employee possesses the minimum qualifications for the position to which transferred or appointed.

If an office or position held by an officer or employee having tenure is abolished, the officer or employee shall not thereby be separated from public employment, but shall remain in the employment of the State with the same pay and classification and shall be transferred to some other office or position for which the officer or employee is eligible under the personnel laws of the State as determined by the head of the department or the governor.

SECTION 3. All appropriations, records, equipment, machines, files, supplies, contracts, books, papers, documents, maps, and other personal property heretofore made, used, acquired, or held by the department of the attorney general relating to the functions transferred to the department of budget and finance by this Act shall be transferred with the functions to which they relate.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2001; provided that, on approval of this Act, the department of the attorney general and the department of budget and finance shall

commence preparations for the transfer of functions, personnel, and property required under this Act.