STAND. COM. REP. NO.2062
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2002
RE: S.B. No. 2757
S.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2002
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2757 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AMENDMENTS TO ACT 253, SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII 2000,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to expedite the effective date of Act 253, Session Laws of Hawaii 2000, otherwise known as the Civil Service Modernization Act (Act 253), for jurisdictions that are ready to implement the provisions of the Act.
Testimony in support of the measure was received from the Department of Human Resources Development. The City and County of Honolulu voiced concern over the possibility that the measure may be construed as requiring all jurisdictions to adhere to the new effective date.
Your Committee finds that the measure would enable the Department of Human Resources Development, which is ready to implement all the provisions of Act 253, to start its civil service modernization sooner than July 1, 2002...the date upon which the major provisions of Act 253 take effect.
Your Committee has amended the measure by:
(1) Making a technical amendment in section 1 of the measure to correctly reflect existing statutes;
(2) Deleting the version of Act 253's section 152 (the effective date section) that is contained in the measure as received by your Committee, which is the version that was in existence prior to the enactment of Act 123, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001; and
(3) Inserting therefor, the correct version of Act 253's section 152 and conforming the amendment to that version.
In order to allay the concerns of the City and County of Honolulu, the Department of Human Resources Development assured your Committee that the measure will only effect the jurisdictions in which the director of human resources certifies that the jurisdiction is ready to be in compliance with the provisions of Act 253.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2757, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2757, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor,
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____________________________ BOB NAKATA, Chair |
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