STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1383

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.R. No. 200

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor, Culture and the Arts, to which was referred S.R. No. 200 entitled:

"SENATE RESOLUTION URGING THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT TO ESTABLISH A NEW SERVICE CLASS FOR PROJECT MANAGERS UNDER COLLECTIVE BARGAINING UNIT 13,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to urge the Department of Human Resources Development (DHRD) to establish a new civil service class for project managers as members of bargaining unit 13 (BU13), defined in section 89-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as professional and scientific employees who cannot be included in any other bargaining unit.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Resources Development and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL‑CIO.

Your Committee finds that civil service positions are grouped into classes based on the kind and level of work assigned to the position and the knowledge, skills, abilities, education, training, and experience required to perform the duties thereof. Specifically, a class is a group of positions that have sufficiently similar duties and responsibilities, such that the same title and pay range or pay grade apply. Classes of positions that share a similar subject matter of work but have different levels of difficulty, responsibility, and qualifications, are called series. For example, the classes of Office Assistant I, II, III, IV, and V, make up the Office Assistant series.

Your Committee further finds that engineering construction projects are managed by engineers and architects, who are managed by project managers. While there are civil service classes and series of classes for the positions of the engineers and architects, the position of project manager is not included in any existing civil servant class or series. As such, departments that need to post recruiting information for project managers are currently using a class in the General Professional series, which is a generic series for professional positions with the work characteristics of BU13. Your Committee acknowledges that DHRD has been collaborating with other state departments to develop a civil servant class of project manager, however, official action has yet to be taken. By urging DHRD to complete its process of developing the civil servant class of project manager, this measure assists state departments in recruiting and retaining qualified project managers.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor, Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 200, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 200, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor, Culture and the Arts,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair