HB460 SD1 SSCR1586

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1586

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 460

H.D. 2

S.D. 1

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 460, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CIVIL SERVICE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Chief Election Officer to hire as Office of Elections staff individuals with or without regard to civil service requirements.

The measure also specifies that Office of Elections employees and employees of the Campaign Spending Commission are not subject to collective bargaining.

Your Committee finds that this measure allows the Chief Election Officer to hire civil service or exempt employees to handle important election-related duties, giving the Office of Elections the flexibility needed to hire qualified professional staff to administer elections in an impartial manner.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Adding a purpose section to clarify the bill's intent to authorize both the Chief Election Officer and the Campaign Spending Commission to hire civil service employees who are excluded from collective bargaining, at their respective discretion;

(2) Adding language to clarify that the Chief Elections Officer has the discretion to hire staff with or without regard to civil service law, and without regard to collective bargaining; and

(3) Amending section 11-193(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to authorize the Campaign Spending Commission to hire staff with or without regard to civil service law, and without regard to collective bargaining, at the discretion of the Commission.

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 H.B. No. 460, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 460, H.D. 2, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair