Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 318 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the University of Hawaii (UH) to retain all positions and all payroll balances remaining after the payment of voluntary severance and special retirement incentive benefits to eligible employees.

UH submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Department of Budget and Finance, Department of Human Resources Development, and Hawaii Government Employees Association submitted testimony in opposition to this bill.

Your Committee finds that this bill will enable UH to use its human and financial resources more efficiently. Without passage of this bill, little incentive exists for UH to update its business practices by creating new jobs, rearranging work assignments, or other similar measures intended to maximize the effectiveness of the UH workforce. In particular, this bill will allow UH to take advantage of the efficiency afforded by new technology that presents alternative methods of accomplishing various tasks and duties.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to facilitate further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 318, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 318, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Labor and Public Employment.