STAND. COM. REP. NO.1410
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: S.B. No. 24
S.D. 2
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 24, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to enable public agencies to improve their human resource programs by authorizing them to conduct experimental modernization projects (projects) in 2001 instead of waiting for Act 253 (the Civil Service Reform Act), Session Laws of Hawaii (SLH) 2000, to take effect in July 2002.
The Department of Accounting and General Services, Board of Water Supply of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii Government Employees Association, Paul Louie & Associates, Inc., and several individuals testified in support of this measure. The Department of Human Resources Development offered comments.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Making it consistent with the applicable provisions of Act 253, SLH 2000, in the following manner:
(a) Deleting references to definitions of "public employee" and "public employer"; and
(b) Clarifying that projects not be limited by state or local personnel laws and rules, but shall be in compliance with laws prohibiting discrimination;
(2) Clarifying that it is the legislative intent to require the cooperation of the various personnel agencies in carrying out projects;
(3) Clarifying that it is the legislative intent that the agency conducting the project shall not be subject to state and county personnel laws; and
(4) Deleting the section that amends Act 253, SLH 2000;
(5) Making the measure take effect upon approval and sunset on June 30, 2002;
(6) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of consistency.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 24, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 24, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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