STAND. COM. REP. NO.3060
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2002
RE: H.B. No. 2821
H.D. 1
S.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2002
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 2821, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE DEPARTMENTS,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to abolish deputy positions within state departments.
Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Education. The Departments of Land and Natural Resources, Labor and Industrial Relations, Human Services, and Budget and Finance submitted testimony in opposition.
Your Committees find that this measure is necessary as a cost-saving measure.
Your Committees amended this measure by:
(1) Allowing deputies whose salaries are funded by special funds;
(2) Requiring Senate confirmation of all deputies;
(3) Prohibiting state departments from employing public relations personnel;
(4) Converting the deputy for water resource management position to an executive officer position;
(5) Authorizing the Board of Education to set the salaries of all superintendents;
(6) Delaying the effective date until December 31, 2050; and
(7) Making several technical, nonsubstantive amendments.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2821, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2821, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Labor,
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____________________________ BOB NAKATA, Chair |
____________________________ CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair |
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