Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 94, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to grant civil service status to certain employees within the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee finds that the Department of Land and Natural Resources currently has a total of ninety-six civil service exempted positions, not including the Chairperson, deputies, and private secretaries. Initially, these positions were viewed as temporary or requiring special knowledge or skills which did not conform to the civil service competitive recruitment process. However, employees in these positions now have years of service, ranging from two months to twenty-seven years.

This measure would convert forty-three of the ninety-six exempt positions to permanent civil service positions, thereby grandfathering those employees now filling the positions into the civil service system.

Your Committee has amended this measure by reducing the number of exempt positions being converted to civil service from forty-three to forty-one.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 94, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 94, S.D. 2.