STAND. COM. REP. NO. 948

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1614

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1614 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to protect the employment rights of public employees by ensuring that civil service employees of the newly established Department of Education (DOE) Civil Service Personnel System shall have the same benefits and rights of civil service employees employed by other executive agencies.

DOE and Hawaii Government Employees Association testified in support of this bill. The Department of Human Resources Development opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1614, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1614, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

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DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Chair