CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 167-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2016

RE:    H.B. No. 2353

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 2

       C.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sirs:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 2353, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EXEMPTIONS FROM CIVIL SERVICE,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

     The purpose of this measure is to exempt certain positions from civil service requirements.  Specifically, this measure:

     (1)  Restores one additional civil service-exempt deputy director position in charge of welfare for the Department of Human Services;

     (2)  Authorizes the Department of Health to establish 18 forensic psychologist positions and two Hawaii State Hospital primary care physician positions, which shall be civil service-exempt for three years; and

     (3)  Provides three–year civil service exemptions for various positions in the Department of Human Services, Department of Public Safety, Department of Health, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, and the State Energy Office.

     Your Committee on Conference amended this measure by:

     (1)  Removing the second civil service-exempt deputy director position in charge of welfare for the Department of Human Services;

     (2)  Removing the three-year civil service exemption for the various positions within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations;

     (3)  Making all energy program managers, energy program specialists, energy program assistants, and energy analysts in the State Energy Office permanently exempt rather than temporarily exempt from civil service requirements; and

     (4)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2016.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2353, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2353, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

____________________________ GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair	____________________________ MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Co-Chair
____________________________ JILL N. TOKUDA, Co-Chair	____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Co-Chair