STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2630

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2515

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2515, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to repeal the authority for department heads to establish and abolish positions for special, research, and demonstration projects approved by the Governor.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from one individual.

Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the Department of Agriculture; the Department of Budget and Finance; the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; the Department of Defense; the Department of Health; the Department of Human Resources Development; the Department of Human Services; the Department of Land and Natural Resources; the Department of Transportation; and the Office of Enterprise Technology Services.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Office of the Governor.

Your Committee finds that executive departments and agencies have the authority to establish positions for special, research and demonstration projects approved by the Governor, outside of the legislative process. This measure abolishes this authority.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2018.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2515, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2515, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair