STAND. COM. REP. NO.  944

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 541

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 541 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to make the civil service benefits of civil service employees of the Department of Education (DOE) the same as those provided to civil service employees of other executive branch agencies until June 30, 2012.

 

     DOE and the Hawaii Government Employees Association supported this bill.  The Department of Human Resources Development opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, 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. 541, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 541, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair