STAND. COM. REP. NO. 866

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1192

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1192, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EXEMPT EMPLOYEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to limit the number of exempt civil service positions in the State, except for the Judiciary, to an unspecified percentage of the total number of civil service positions.

Furthermore, this measure requires the Department of Human Resources to make annual reports to the Legislature on the number of civil service and exempt employees employed by the State.

Your Committee finds that placing limits on the number of exempt civil service positions in the State is necessary to preserve the principle that the civil service shall comprise all positions in the State. The proliferation of exempt positions in the State tends to undermine this principle. Placing limits on the number of exempt positions and regularly monitoring the implementation of those limits will help preserve the integrity of the civil service system.

Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that the first report to the Legislature is due January 1, 2006.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1192, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1192, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair