HSCR1494

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1494

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2015

RE: S.B. No. 139

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 Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 139, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to update exemptions to the civil service procedures and position classification system and provide for the review of current exemptions by:

(1) Deleting exemptions for special, research, and demonstration projects in the Department of Education;

(2) Repealing the expiration of exemptions created after July 1, 2014;

(3) Adding a new exemption for positions in the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism supporting the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative; and

(4) Amending the statutory position review requirement to limit the positions subject to review to those that were created between July 1, 2002 and July 1, 2014, and requiring the Director of Human Resources Development to submit a report to the Legislature on this review.

The Office of Planning; The Judiciary; Department of Human Resources Development; Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Department of Health; Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation; Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation; High Technology Development Corporation; and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO commented on this measure.

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 S.B. No. 139, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair