STAND. COM. REP. NO.  125

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   H.B. No. 541

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 541 entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure that the civil service benefits of Department of Education (DOE) civil service employees are the same as those provided to civil service employees of other executive branch agencies pursuant to Chapter 76, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     DOE and the Hawaii Government Employees' Association testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Human Resources Development opposed this measure. 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 541 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment,

____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair

____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Chair