STAND. COM. REP. NO.  966-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2353

      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. 2353, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

     (1)  Restore the second Deputy Director position at the Department of Human Services and exempt this position from civil service; and

     (2)  Designate various positions in the Department of Human Services, the Department of Public Safety, Department of Health, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, and Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, as temporarily exempt from civil service for one year.

The Department of Human Services and Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism provided testimony in support of the measure.  The Department of Health, Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO, and an individual provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to facilitate further discussion; 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. 2353, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2353, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair