STAND. COM. REP. NO. 811-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 1832

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1832, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HIRING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Allow a state department, division, or agency, rather than the Department of Human Resources Development, to conduct a minimum qualification review of applicants for vacant positions within the department, division, or agency and to immediately interview the applicant; and

(2) Require the Department of Human Resources Development to provide state departments, divisions, and agencies the applications received for vacancies under certain circumstances.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Law Enforcement and United Public Workers, AFSCME Local 646, AFL-CIO. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Human Resources Development. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation; Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation; Office of Planning and Sustainable Development; and Hawaiʻi State Public Library System.

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 H.B. No. 1832, 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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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair