Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor and Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 554 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to authorize any county board of water supply serving at least 500,000 persons to conduct an experimental human resources modernization project without the approval of the county's mayor.

The Honolulu Board of Water Supply and United Public Workers submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Hawaii Government Employees Association submitted testimony in support of the intent of this bill.

Your Committee finds that this bill will enable a board of water supply that serves at least $500,000 persons to transform itself into a more efficient provider of water services. As agencies with a certain amount of autonomy and which have their own stable source of revenue, county boards of water supply are in an excellent position to conduct a workforce modernization project.

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 Labor and Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 554, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 554,

H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.