STAND. COM. REP. NO.766-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 2964

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Labor and Public Employment and Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2964, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII COMMISSION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to encourage community service and volunteer participation by:

(1) Statutorily establishing the Hawaii Commission for National and Community Service (Commission) and place it within the University of Hawaii (UH); and

(2) Transferring the functions and programs from the temporary Commission presently within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) due to the new Commission..

The Department of Human Services, Department of Education, Hawaii Government Employees Association, and UH testified in support of this measure. DLIR testified in opposition to this measure.

The Commission was created by Executive Order 94-01 and was temporarily placed within DLIR for administrative purposes. As part of the National and Community Service Act of 1993, Hawaii is required to have the Commission in order to receive federal funds through the Corporation for National Service for the Americorps national service program. Inasmuch as an executive order is temporary in nature in accordance with section 26-41, Hawaii Revised Statutes, your Committees find that this bill gives the Commission a permanent home.

Your Committees further find that the major goal of the Commission is to promote and encourage community service and volunteer participation as a means of community and state problem solving. This is a worthwhile and noble endeavor and has been instrumental in developing our communities.

However, your Committees also understand the concerns raised by DLIR regarding the transfer of positions and other items from DLIR to UH proposed in this bill.

Therefore, your Committees have amended this measure by changing the effective date of the appropriation section from July 1, 2002, to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor and Public Employment and Higher Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2964, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2964, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Labor and Public Employment and Higher Education,

 

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ROY TAKUMI, Chair

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SCOTT K. SAIKI, Chair