STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1564-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 3099

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 3099, S.D. 1, H.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 for the conversion of certain public employee positions from exempt status to civil service status.  Specifically, this measure:

     (1)  Makes hiring of professional and technical staff in accordance with civil service laws mandatory, rather than optional, for the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources; and

(2)  Sunsets civil service exemptions created after July 1, 2014, after three years of their enactment unless affirmatively extended by the Legislature.

The Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO supported this measure.  The Department of Human Resources Development opposed this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources commented on this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3099, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair