STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1221

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 460

H.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 460, H.D. 2, entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify that the Chief Election Officer may fill Office of Elections staff positions with civil service or exempt employees.

The Chief Election Officer testified in support of the measure.

Your Committees find that this measure affords the Chief Election Officer with the flexibility to hire civil service or exempt employees to handle important election-related duties. This measure permits the Office of Elections to hire qualified professional staff to administer the elections system in an impartial manner.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 460, H.D. 2, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Labor,

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BRIAN KANNO, Chair

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair