STAND. COM. REP. NO.347

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: S.B. No. 1377

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 1377 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to convert the status of employees of the Support Services Office and the Nursing Home Without Walls Program under the Department of Human Services' Social Services Division to civil service.

Testimony in support of the measure was received from the Hawaii Government Employees Association, employees of the Department of Human Services who would be affected by the personnel status conversion, and numerous organizations and clients of the Department of Human Services. The Department of Human Services opposed the measure as a matter of equity towards other civil service exempt employees of the Department.

Your Committee finds that although the Support Services Office and the Nursing Home Without Walls Program under the Department of Human Services have been granted permanent status within the Hawaii Revised Statutes, the employees who staff these programs are still considered temporary employees.

Your Committee believes that the employees of these programs, many of whom have worked for their programs for over a decade, deserve to have their positions converted.

Your Committee has amended the measure to clarify that the program development staff is included in the fifty-two positions being converted.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1377, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1377, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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BOB NAKATA, Chair