Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 613 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make permanent the authority of the State Librarian to administratively reallocate vacant positions and establish temporary positions.

Your Committees received testimony in support of the measure from the Hawaii Government Employees Association. Oral testimony in support of the measure was given by the State Librarian.

Your Committees find that the measure would provide the public library system with increased flexibility in managing its employees.

Your Committees made technical nonsubstantive changes to comport with preferred drafting style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 613, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 613, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.