STAND. COM. REP. NO.746

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 643

H.D. 2

 

 

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. 643, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE MERIT APPEALS BOARD,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide that the Hawaii Labor Relations Board (HLRB) shall act as the Merit Appeals Board and hear appeals of actions taken against civil service employees.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR), Department of Human Resources Development (DHRD), and United Public Workers submitted testimony in support of this bill.

Your Committee recognizes that this bill conflicts with Act 253, Session Laws of Hawaii 2000 (Act 253). This bill designates the Hawaii Labor Relations Board, which is placed in DLIR, as the State Merit Appeals Board. However, Act 253, which takes effect on July 1, 2002, provides that the State Merit Appeals Board will be placed in DHRD. This problem needs further discussion and may require the repeal of the law placing the Merit Appeals Board in DHRD.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to July 1, 2002.

 

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. 643, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 643, H.D. 2.

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

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair