STAND. COM. REP. NO. 110-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2254

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 Labor & Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 2254 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Allow state departments to participate in temporary employee interchanges with private sector organizations, including nonprofit and for-profit organizations; and

(2) Limit the term for a temporary employee interchange with a private sector organization to no more than four continuous months.

Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Human Resources Development.

Your Committee finds that it is critical for the State to recruit and retain state employees in a competitive labor market. Establishing a temporary employee interchange with private sector organizations may result in a more dynamic and interconnected workforce. This measure provides an innovative solution to ensuring that state employment vacancies can be filled in a timely manner.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2254, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2254, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Government Operations,

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SCOT Z. MATAYOSHI, Chair