STAND. COM. REP. NO.  90

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 628

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 628 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INTERGOVERNMENTAL MOVEMENTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is allow for civil service employees to be moved or exchanged between state, county, and federal government positions if certain conditions are met.

 

     The Hawaii Government Employees Association testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Human Resources Development supported the intent of this measure.  The Department of Human Resources of the City and County of Honolulu and Department of Human Resources of the County of Hawaii submitted comments.

 

     Act 253, Session Laws of Hawaii 2000, was intended to reform the civil service system.  In doing so, however, certain transfer rights and benefits afforded state and county employees were repealed.  Although state and county departments have continued to allow movements of employees between and among their jurisdictions under the current civil service law and rules adopted in accordance with that law, your Committee finds that this measure will statutorily restore these rights and benefits.


 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 628 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

 

 

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KARL RHOADS, Chair