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. 2758 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make housekeeping amendments to Act 253, Session Laws of Hawaii 2000 (Act 253), otherwise known as the Civil Service Modernization Act.

Testimony in support of the measure was received from the Department of Human Resources Development. The Hawaii State Teachers Association supported the measure but asked that the measure be amended to repeal the fact finding provisions of Chapter 89, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to collective bargaining.

Your Committee finds that the amendments contained in this measure are necessary to further effectuate the Legislature's intent when it embarked on its quest to modernize Hawaii's civil service system.

The measure accomplishes this by correcting statutory references or language changes that were inadvertently left out and subsequently identified by the Department of Human Resources Development and the Legislative Reference Bureau as extraneous, unnecessary, or in need of clarification.

Your Committee has amended the measure by:

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. 2758, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2758, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.