Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Judiciary and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 460 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to clarify the hiring practices of the Office of Elections (OE) and the Campaign Spending Commission (CSC) by specifying that these agencies may fill positions with civil service employees.

The OE testified in support of this bill. The Hawaii Government Employees Association opposed this measure. The CSC offered comments.

Your Committees find that providing the OE with the flexibility to employ civil service workers subject to collective bargaining will allow OE to continue to hire and retain civil servant staff. Furthermore, the CSC has recommended that your Committees remove the provision in this bill allowing CSC employees to be included in civil service, because they have always been exempt from that employment status.

Accordingly, your Committees have amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 460, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 460, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.