STAND. COM. REP. NO. 637
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                                 STAND. COM. REP. NO. 637

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1128
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor and Public Employment, to which was
referred H.B. No. 1128 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN
     STATE GOVERNMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to permit testing and
demonstration of new approaches to selected aspects of human
resource management within the Civil Service System.

     The Department of Human Resources Development submitted
testimony in support of this measure, noting that the State must
modernize, streamline, and reinvent iteself.

     The Public Employees Management Association of Hawaii
submitted testimony in opposition to this measure, noting that
the effect of this bill would be to remove legislatively imposed
entitlements granted a tenured civil service employee in good
standing under Hawaii law.

     The Hawaii Government Employees Association submitted
comments stating that the proposal is unnecessary at this time.

     The United Public Workers opposed this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical,
nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and clarity.


 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Labor and Public Employment that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 1128, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1128, H.D.
1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Labor and Public
                                   Employment,



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                                   TERRY NUI YOSHINAGA, Chair