Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Labor and Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 702 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from DPS. Your Committees received testimony in support of the intent of this measure from the Hawaii Government Employees Association.

Your Committees have concerns regarding the process of determining which civil service positions are to be made exempt from chapters 76 and 77, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Your Committees find that the criteria for these determinations remain unclear. A report on this topic from the Department of Human Resources Development was not completed in time for delivery to the Legislature as required in Act 253, Session Laws of Hawaii 2000. Therefore, to allow a chance to address these concerns and to keep the discussion alive, your Committees have amended this measure to take effect on July 1, 2020.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Labor and Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 702, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 702, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.