STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2886

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3362

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3362, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SERVICE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Authorize the temporary assignment of permanent legislative staff during the interim to executive or judicial branch agencies; and

(2) Establish that while on temporary assignment, the temporarily assigned employee is still considered an employee of the Legislature and exempt from civil service.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation.

Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO.

Your Committees find that, pursuant to the Hawaii State Constitution, the Legislature convenes annually for sixty days, beginning on the third Wednesday in January. Your Committees believe that assigning permanent legislative employees to other state departments and agencies while the Legislature is not in session will provide the staffer with a breadth of experience and knowledge. This measure will allow permanent legislative employees to learn the operational work of executive or judicial branch agencies, which will be invaluable to the Legislature upon the staffers' return.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3362, S.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means,

________________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

________________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair