Bill Text: HI HB1832 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Legislative Service Agencies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-26 - Referred to LMG, FIN, referral sheet 2 [HB1832 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-HB1832-Introduced.html
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to legislative SERVICE agencies.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 21E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§21E- Legislative
service agency director vacancies. (a) Upon
the vacancy of a legislative service agency director position, the committee shall
convene meetings within thirty days of the vacancy to seek and examine candidates
to fill the vacancy.
(b) The
committee shall hold a public hearing on selected candidates and make a joint recommendation
to each respective chamber for consideration within one hundred twenty days of any
legislative service agency director vacancy; provided that applicant pool data and
committee deliberations separate from the public hearing shall be confidential and
not subject to disclosure pursuant to chapter 92F.
(c) Each
chamber shall determine by rule the process it will use to adopt or not adopt the
joint recommendation, any other deadlines for acting upon a recommendation, whether
a person recommended by the committee to serve as a legislative service agency director
may serve in an interim or acting capacity if both houses do not adopt the recommendation,
and other necessary considerations."
SECTION 2. Section 21E-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending its title and subsections (a) and (b) to read as follows:
"[[]§21E-2[]]
Establishment of the joint
legislative management committee;
members; terms; vacancies. (a) There is established within the legislature a
bipartisan joint legislative management committee to [supervise, develop
policy, and coordinate activities for all] seek and examine candidates, and
submit a recommendation for a candidate, to fill a vacancy in any legislative
service agency [staff services.] director position.
(b)
The committee shall consist of [ten] eight members: [five] four shall be
representatives appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, [including
the chairperson of the house committee on legislative management and at least
one member of the minority party], and [five] four shall be
senators appointed by the president of the senate, [including the
chairperson of the senate committee on legislative management and at least one
member of the minority party]. The
appointing authority of each house shall make and announce the appointment or
reappointment of members of the committee no later than fifteen days after the
convening of the first regular session of each legislature. [The chairpersons of the house and senate
legislative management committees] One of the members appointed by the speaker
of the house of representatives and one of the members appointed by the president
of the senate shall serve as co-chairs of the joint legislative management
committee."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Joint Legislative Management Committee; Membership; Duties; Legislative Service Agency Directors; Vacancy
Description:
Provides for the process of seeking, examining, and recommending candidates for legislative service agency director vacancies by the joint legislative management committee. Amends the duties and membership of the joint legislative management committee.
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
