STAND. COM. REP. NO. 721-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2368

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2368 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SERVICES PERFORMED BY CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request establishment of twenty-seven full-time equivalent permanent civil service positions and equipment for the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to provide services historically and customarily performed by civil service employees in connection with refuse collection.

The Department of Human Resource Development and United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO testified in support of this measure. The Hawaii Public Housing Authority testified in support of this measure with amendments. Grassroot Institute of Hawaii commented on this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Appropriating unspecified amounts for the establishment of the twenty-seven full-time equivalent permanent civil service employee positions and equipment for the Hawaii Public Housing Authority in connection with refuse collection;

(2) Changing its effective date to January 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

Should this measure be deliberated further by your Committee on Finance, your Committee respectfully requests the Committee on Finance to consider the following appropriation amounts that reflect amounts provided by the Department of Human Resource Development and the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for positions and equipment for the Hawaii Public Housing Authority in connection with refuse collection:

(1) $472,783 to $721,734 for twenty-seven full-time equivalent positions for refuse collection employees;

(2) $1,764,475 for eight hundred fifteen refuse collection bins;

(3) $3,180,000 for nineteen refuse collection front loader trucks;

(4) $720,000 for eight scout trucks; and

(5) $42,000 to $90,000 for welding equipment.

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. 2368, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2368, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair