STAND. COM. REP. NO. 109-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2658

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. 2658 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal the requirement that the Director of Human Resources Development must submit a report to the Legislature before reclassifying and abolishing vacant positions within state departments and agencies that are under the jurisdiction of the Department.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Resources Development.

Your Committee finds that the Director of Human Resources Development is required to submit a report to the Legislature before reclassifying and abolishing vacant positions within state departments and agencies that are under the jurisdiction of the Department. Because there are other measures moving forward that require an annual report on vacancies that request more detailed information than this original report, should those measures become enacted, the original report requirement would be redundant.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion.

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. 2658, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2658, 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