STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2264

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2352

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 2352 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to repeal existing law that requires the Director of Human Resources Development to submit a report to the Legislature before reclassifying or abolishing vacant positions within state departments and agencies that are under its jurisdiction.

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

Your Committee finds that there is currently a requirement within chapter 26-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for the Director of Human Resources Development to submit a report to the Legislature before reclassifying and abolishing vacant positions within state departments and agencies that are under the jurisdiction. Your Committee also finds that there are measures that have been introduced for legislative deliberation this regular session that require the Department of Human Resources Development or its Director to submit a more detailed report pertaining to vacancies, compared to what is required under existing law. This measure addresses the redundancy of having two annual reports covering the same issues.

Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor and Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2352, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2352, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor and Technology,

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair