STAND. COM. REP. NO.  455-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 1764

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1764 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE RESIDENCY OF APPOINTIVE OFFICERS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to foster practices that seek to attain highly qualified professionals to lead government agencies in the State.  Specifically, this measure allows government agencies to waive residency requirements for appointed officers when those positions require highly specialized expertise and a qualified applicant who meets the residency requirement is not available.

The Department of Human Resources of the City and County of Honolulu testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to January 7, 2059, to promote further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1764, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1764, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair