STAND. COM. REP. NO.  351-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2390

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 2390 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to increase the quality of applicants seeking employment with the Department of Public Safety.  Specifically, this measure ensures that the Department's hiring process is consistent between its Law Enforcement and Corrections Divisions by explicitly excepting the Department from the unlawful employment practice provisions of Chapter 378, Hawaii Revised Statutes, when administering lie detector tests.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and the Department of Public Safety supported this measure.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Public Safety that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2390  and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Public Safety,

____________________________ GREGG TAKAYAMA, Chair

____________________________ MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair