STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2844

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 301

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 301, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide funding to support staffing for the Hawaii civil rights commission.

Specifically, this bill appropriates $134,340 for three positions–-an investigator, a legal assistant, and an attorney mediation coordinator at the Hawaii civil rights commission.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the appropriated amount to an unspecified amount to facilitate further discussion; and

(2) Making technical nonsubstantive changes.

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. 301, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 301, S.D. 2.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair