Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Labor and Public Employment and Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 175 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to request the United States Secretary of Defense to withdraw a proposal currently before the federal Department of Defense (DOD) regarding a National Security Personnel System (NSPS). More specifically, this measure requests the DOD to:

The Hawaii State Teachers Association, the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, and the Hawaii Coalition of Federal Defense Unions testified in support of the measure.

Your Committees find that Hawaii's second most productive industry next to tourism is the federal government -- specifically from revenue received from the DOD. The NSPS would take away civil service protections from over 700,000 civilian DOD employees, including some 16,000 who work in Hawaii. Your Committees assert that removing civil services protections from these employees will not improve national security and will impinge upon these employee's rights. Thus, your Committees feel that the NSPS should be withdrawn, and civil service and collective bargaining rights should be protected.

After careful consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor and Public Employment and Public Safety and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 175, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Finance, in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 175, H.D. 1.