STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1467

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1130

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1130, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow corrections agencies to subject employees or prospective employees to lie detector tests and psychological tests without constituting discriminatory employment practices.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety and one individual.

 

     Your Committees find that the hiring of high-quality employees, particularly in corrections agencies, is vital to protecting the health, safety, and welfare of the public.  This measure allows corrections agencies to require employees or prospective employees to submit to a lie detector test or psychological test as a condition of employment or continued employment to increase the quality of employees.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by inserting an effective date of January 7, 2059, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1130, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1130, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means,

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair

 

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair