STAND. COM. REP. NO.  936

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   S.B. No. 1101

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 1101, S.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 availability of the state civil service exemption for persons hired or contracted by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to perform repair, maintenance, or capital improvement project work on vacant state housing units.  This measure extends the expiration date of the exemption from June 30, 2015, to June 30, 2018.

The Hawaii Public Housing Authority and an individual supported this measure.  United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO opposed this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the proposed expiration date of the state civil service exemption from June 30, 2018, to June 30, 2017; and

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1101, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1101, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Labor & Public Employment.

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

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MARK J. HASHEM, Chair