STAND. COM. REP. 767
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: H.B. No. 287
H.D. 3
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 287, H.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to:
(1) Require that a public employee convicted of a felony for conduct in violation of the employee's duties shall be terminated from the employee's position; and
(2) Specify that a public employee terminated for this reason who is covered by a collective bargaining agreement does not have the right to file a grievance contesting the termination.
The Department of Human Resources Development, Hawaii State Ethics Commission, and League of Women Voters submitted testimony in support of this bill.
Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style and clarity.
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 H.B. No. 287, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 287, H.D. 3.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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