CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 4

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2011

RE:    S.B. No. 45

       H.D. 1

       C.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sirs:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 45, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

     The purpose of this measure is to repeal the civil service exemptions for the first and second deputy sheriffs.

Your Committee on Conference finds that removing the current civil service exemptions for the first deputy sheriff and second deputy sheriff positions would facilitate more effective administrative and operational management of the Sheriff Division of the Department of Public Safety.  There presently are an insufficient number of upper management positions above the operational segments of the Sheriff Division.  To address the shortage, the Department of Public Safety has been working with the Department of Human Resources Development to expand the deputy sheriff class series to include captains and majors; however, the Department of Human Resources Development has required that the deputy sheriff positions first be converted to civil service before an expansion of the deputy sheriff class series is considered.  This measure takes a necessary step toward improving the administration and operations of the Sheriff Division.

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of January 1, 2012.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 45, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 45, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

____________________________ HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Co-Chair	____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair
____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Co-Chair	____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Co-Chair
____________________________ TY CULLEN, Co-Chair