STAND. COM. REP. NO.  894-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2008

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2008, 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 prohibit the State from hiring persons for more than two 89-day terms in a fully or partially general-funded position per the lifetime of the person, with limited exceptions.

The United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME, Local 152, AFL-CIO supported this measure.  The Department of Accounting and General Services; Department of Land and Natural Resources; Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Department of Public Safety; Department of Hawaiian Home Lands; Department of Health; Hawaii State Ethics Commission; Campaign Spending Commission; Department of the Attorney General; City and County of Honolulu Ethics Commission; and the Department of Agriculture opposed this measure.  The Department of Human Resources Development; Department of Budget and Finance; Department of Taxation; University of Hawaii; and Department of Education provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Specifying that the State is prohibited from hiring a person for more than two 89-day terms in a fully general-funded position per the lifetime of the person; and

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

     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 H.B. No. 2008, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2008, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair