STAND. COM. REP. NO. 818

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1101

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1101, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to extend the expiration date of the state civil service exemption for persons hired or contracted by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to repair and maintain vacant state housing units from June 30, 2015, to June 30, 2018.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Hawaii Public Housing Authority.

 

     Your Committee finds that the state civil service exemption has benefitted the Hawaii Public Housing Authority by attracting qualified job applicants and expediting repair and maintenance work on vacant state housing units, thus enabling the Authority to more quickly rehabilitate the units and place them back in the rental pool.  Consequently, your Committee believes that the repeal date for the exemption should be extended.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1101, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair