STAND. COM. REP. NO.792

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 1595

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1595, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide incentives for public employees to seek excluded managerial positions by requiring that proposed adjustments for excluded civil service employees:

(1) Result in compensation and benefit packages that are at least equal to the packages provided under collective bargaining agreements for counterparts and subordinates; and

(2) Are equivalent or not less than adjustments provided in other jurisdictions.

The Hawaii Government Employees Association Managerial and Confidential Employees Chapter testified in support of this measure. The Department of Human Resources Development and the Public Employees Management Association of Hawaii offered comments.

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. 1595, 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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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair