STAND. COM. REP. NO. 526

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1193

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Labor and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1193 entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ensure that civil service employees who transferred from executive branch agencies to the Department of Education under Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, are eligible to apply for intra- and inter-departmental transfer and promotional opportunities within the executive branch.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Education (DOE) and the Hawaii Government Employees Association. Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Department of Human Resources Development.

Your Committees find that Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, mandated the transfer of certain functions from various state agencies to the DOE. Act 51 also provided for the DOE to establish a separate personnel system under the control of the Board of Education. Your Committees believe that the rights and benefits of DOE civil service employees, whether or not transferred pursuant to Act 51, should be maintained and not diminished due to the transfer or the institution of a separate personnel system.

Accordingly, your Committees have amended this measure by ensuring that all DOE civil service employees, including those transferred under Act 51, are eligible for inter-and intra-departmental transfer and promotional opportunities within the executive branch.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1193, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1193, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Labor and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

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BRIAN KANNO, Chair