STAND. COM. REP. NO.  364-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2007

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2007 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to improve government operations and efficiency by establishing a Lean Government Advisory Board within the Department of Human Resources Development.

The Department of Budget and Finance and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO commented on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting a preamble to set forth the legislative intent of this measure; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2007, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2007, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair