Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2215, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to assist the State in meeting personnel shortage needs by clarifying that an employee who receives a special retirement incentive benefit may be reemployed with the State in a contract-for-service capacity for a period not to exceed one year without forfeiture of benefits.

The Department of Education testified in support of this bill. The Department of Human Resources Development supported this measure with amendments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

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. 2215, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2215, H.D. 2.