THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2016

 

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

Senator Jill N. Tokuda, Chair

Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING

 

 

DATE:

Monday, April 04, 2016

TIME:

10:00 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 211

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

The following measure(s) were previously heard in their respective subject matter committees:

 

HB 1683, HD1

      (SSCR3054)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE.

Permits an employee to use leave under the Hawaii Family Leave Law to care for a sibling.  (HB1683 HD1)

 

JDL, WAM

HB 2308, HD1

      (SSCR2936)

      Status & Testimony

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS.

Provides fund authorizations and appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for Unit (11) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2015‑2017.  (HB2308 HD1)

 

JDL, WAM

HB 1849, HD1, SD1

      (SSCR2933)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HIRING.

Creates a three-year reclassification and recruitment pilot program within the Department of Human Resources Development to expedite the recruitment and hiring process for critical-to-fill and labor shortage positions.  Makes an appropriation.  Effective January 7, 2059.  (SD1)

 

JDL, WAM

HB 2353, HD2, SD1

      (SSCR3050)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO EXEMPTIONS FROM CIVIL SERVICE.

Restores the second civil-service exempt deputy director position for the department of human services.  For a period of three years, provides a civil service exemption for various positions in the department of human services, department of public safety, department of health, department of labor and industrial relations, and department of business, economic development, and tourism.  Effective July 1, 2030.  (SD1)

 

JDL, WAM

 

Decision making meeting only, no oral testimony will be accepted.

 

Persons wishing to submit written testimony may do so up to 24 hours prior to the hearing.

 

Click here to submit written testimony to the Senate Committee on Ways and Means.

 

FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT (808) 586-6800.

 

 

 

 

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Senator Jill N. Tokuda

Chair