Report Title:

Child Welfare Services; Human Services

Description:

Appropriates funds to: reprice, or reclassify upward, all child welfare service social workers; upgrade all exempt case support aid positions to permanent social service assistant IV positions; and lower the caseload of assessment social workers and case managers.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

699

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to child welfare services.

 

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

SECTION 1. 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, and the same sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2004-2005, to:

(1) Reprice, or reclassify upward, all child welfare service social workers in the department of human services, social services division, child welfare services branch;

(2) Upgrade all exempt case support aid positions in the department of human services, social services division, child welfare services branch to permanent social service assistant IV positions;

(3) Convert one clerk-typist II position in the department of human services, social services division, child welfare services branch (#39729, East Hawaii child welfare service unit III, Pahoa village) from half-time status to full-time status;

(4) Lower the caseload of assessment social workers in the department of human services, social services division, child welfare services branch to not more than twenty children per assessment social worker; and

(5) Lower the caseload of case managers in the department of human services, social services division, child welfare services branch to not more than twenty children per case manager.

SECTION 2. The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2003.

INTRODUCED BY:

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