STAND. COM. REP. NO.  333

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 932

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 932, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to extend the exemption from civil service of persons hired or contracted to perform repair or maintenance work on the Hawaii Public Housing Authority's vacant public housing units.

The Hawaii Public Housing Authority testified in support of this measure.  The United Public Workers Hawaii testified in opposition to this measure.

     Your Committee urges the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to move forward and create civil service positions for the repair or maintenance work of their vacant public housing units.  Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Specifying that Act 159, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, which created the civil service exemption, shall be repealed on July 1, 2017; and making conforming amendments to later Acts; and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 Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 932, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 932, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair