Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor and Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 643 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide that the Hawaii Labor Relations Board (HLRB) shall act as the merit appeals board and hear appeals of actions taken against civil service employees.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Labor Relations Board, Department of Human Resources Development, and United Public Workers. The Hawaii Government Employees Association opposed this bill.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor and Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 643, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 643, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.