Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 514 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide the Attorney General with greater authority to manage the workloads of attorneys and law clerks employed by the State.

Supportive testimony was submitted by the Attorney General.

Currently, the deputies whose positions are funded by state sources other than the Department's budget -- such as appropriations from special or revolving funds, or other agencies' budgets -- are often expected to service only the clients who pay their salaries. As the result, these deputies can at times have less or more work than the general funded deputies paid by the Department.

This bill will allow the attorney general to assign non-general funded deputies to work in areas where help is needed, thereby equalizing the workloads for all deputies and exposing deputies to different areas of law.

Your Committee believes this will serve the public good by increasing the efficiency of the Department and enhancing the morale, professional growth, and development of staff.

After careful consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 514, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 514, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.