STAND. COM. REP. NO.  150-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2247

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2247 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENTAL TRAVEL,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the State and counties to pay the approved travel costs incurred by their officers and employees for official state or county business, either directly to the vendor or by cash advance to the officer or employee, unless otherwise provided by a collective bargaining agreement.

 

     The Hawaii Government Employees Association testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee is addressing the problem faced by many public employees when they are required to pay for official business out of their own funds and wait to be reimbursed.  While waiting to be reimbursed, government employees face financial difficulties.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2247 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

 

 

 

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KARL RHOADS, Chair