STAND. COM. REP. NO. 25

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 45

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 45 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

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

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from one state department and forty-nine individuals.

     Your Committee finds that changing the current exempt civil service positions for first deputy sheriff and second deputy sheriff provides effective administrative and operational management of the Sheriff Division.  According to testimony 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.  Your Committee finds that this measure takes a necessary step toward improving the administration and operations of the Sheriff Division.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 45 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs,

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WILL ESPERO, Chair