Report Title:

State Capitol Tours; Transfer to Legislature

Description:

Transfers state capitol tour service from the Office of the Governor to the Legislature; appropriates funds.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

150

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO THE LEGISLATURE.

 

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

SECTION 1. Act 218, Session Laws of Hawaii (SLH) 1991, transferred the function of the state capitol tour service from the legislature to the office of information within the office of the governor until the state capitol renovations were completed. The purpose of Act 218, SLH 1991, was to provide for the continued operation of the state capitol tour service while the state capitol was being renovated (Senate Standing Committee Report No. 1135 of the Committee on Ways and Means). Those renovations are completed, but the tour service has remained under the office of the governor. The legislature finds that the state capitol tour service is more appropriately a function of the legislature, inasmuch as the state capitol building houses the senate and the house of representatives and their respective chambers and staff offices, as well as the legislative reference bureau. The offices of the governor and the lieutenant governor occupy a comparatively much smaller portion of the building.

The purpose of this Act is to transfer the state capitol tour service from the office of the governor to the legislature.

SECTION 2. The state capitol tour service function is transferred from the office of the governor to the legislature.

SECTION 3. All rights, powers, functions, and duties of the state capitol tour service are transferred to the legislature.

All officers and employees whose functions are transferred by this Act shall be transferred with their functions and shall continue to perform their regular duties upon their transfer, subject to the state personnel laws and this Act.

No officer or employee of the State having tenure shall suffer any loss of salary, seniority, prior service credit, vacation, sick leave, or other employee benefit or privilege as a consequence of this Act.

SECTION 4. All appropriations, records, equipment, machines, files, supplies, contracts, books, papers, documents, maps, and other personal property heretofore made, used, acquired, or held by the office of information under the office of the governor relating to the capitol tour service function transferred to the legislature shall be transferred with the function to which they relate.

SECTION 5. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $          , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2003-2004, for the transfer of the state capitol tour service to the legislature.

SECTION 6. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the legislature for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 7. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2003.

INTRODUCED BY:

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