STAND. COM. REP. NO. 746-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2399

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. 2399 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to exempt an additional administrative assistant position in the Hawaii State Public Library System from civil service.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaiʻi State Public Library System.

Your Committee finds that Act 88, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, established an additional administrative assistant position in the Hawaii State Public Library System that was intended to be exempt from civil service similarly to the existing administrative assistant position. This measure explicitly exempts the additional position from civil service.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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

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

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. 2399, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2399, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair