STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2691

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2070

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2070, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE RESIDENCY OF APPOINTIVE OFFICERS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow an appointing authority to waive the residency requirement for appointed state or county department heads and deputies or assistants to a department head when the position requires highly specialized or scientific knowledge or training and no qualified applicant who meets the residency requirement can be found.

 

     Your Committee finds that certain state or county appointed positions require advanced training or highly specialized scientific expertise that may not be available among the local applicant pool.  In addition, appointed department heads and assistant or deputy department heads must meet a mandatory one-year residency requirement.  Your Committee finds that these two specific requirements have prevented agencies from filling certain vacancies because a qualified candidate who met the residency requirement and also possessed the requisite training or knowledge was not available.  Your Committee finds that authorizing appointing officers to waive the one-year residency requirement in certain circumstances will allow appointing officers to fill crucial specialized positions that may otherwise remain vacant.

 

     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. 2070, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair