STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1106

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 214

H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 214, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Allow a retirant of at least six months to be employed without reenrollment in the Employees' Retirement System and without loss or interruption of retirement benefits if the retirant is employed as a school resource officer or investigator in a position identified by the Department of Law Enforcement or Department of the Attorney General, respectively, as a labor shortage or difficult-to-fill position, subject to certain conditions; and

(2) Require the Director of Human Resources of the appropriate state jurisdiction, or the human resources management chief executive of each county, to include in their annual reports to the Legislature details on the employment of retirants as school resource officers or investigators.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Law Enforcement. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of the Attorney General; Department of Education; and Employees' Retirement System Board of Trustees.

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. 214, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair