STAND. COM. REP. NO.  892-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2477

      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. 2477, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE EMPLOYEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1)  Limit the maximum number of civil service exempt positions administered by the Department of Human Resources Development (DHRD) within the Executive Branch;

(2)  Require the respective state agency directors to remove civil service exempt positions by a certain amount if the number of civil service exempt employees within their agencies exceed the maximum percentage allowed under this measure; and

(3)  Require the DHRD Director to report on the number of civil service exempt employees administered by DHRD within the Executive Branch.

Two individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Budget and Finance opposed this measure.  DHRD; Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME, Local 152, AFL-CIO commented on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Making the percentage amount unspecified with regard to the maximum number of civil service exempt employees the Executive Branch is allowed, excluding the Department of the Attorney General; 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. 2477, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2477, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair