REPORT TITLE: 
Public Employment


DESCRIPTION:
Provides that severely handicapped persons, certified for
positions in public service, can transfer from one position to
another provided the new position requires functions that the
person is capable of performing.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           1436
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                     A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 78-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended to read as follows:
 
 3      "�78-2 Equal opportunity.  (a)  No person shall be
 
 4 discriminated against in any case because of any physical or
 
 5 mental handicap, in examination, appointment, reinstatement,
 
 6 reemployment, promotion, transfer, demotion, or removal, with
 
 7 respect to any position the duties of which, in the opinion of
 
 8 the director, may be efficiently performed by a person with a
 
 9 physical or mental handicap; provided that the employment will
 
10 not be hazardous to the person appointed or endanger the health
 
11 or safety of the person's fellow employees or others.
 
12      (b)  To promote employment opportunities for [the] severely
 
13 handicapped individuals, all departments or agencies of the state
 
14 and county governments shall develop and implement programs for
 
15 the [selective] employment of [the] severely handicapped
 
16 individuals.  Such programs shall provide for [the] certification
 
17 by the state vocational rehabilitation office [that the] of
 
18 individuals who are severely handicapped [individual possesses
 
19 the skills necessary to safely perform the duties of the position 
 

 
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 1 to which the individual will be placed].  Such certification
 
 2 shall include the range of skills possessed by the individual and
 
 3 the various positions in which the individual could be placed,
 
 4 allowing the individual to transfer from one position to another
 
 5 based on job performance and skills."
 
 6      SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
 7 New statutory material is underscored.
 
 8      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
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10                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________