Bill Text: HI HB2477 | 2016 | Regular Session | Amended

Hawaii House Bill 2477 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Maximum Percentage of Civil Service Employees; Executive Branch

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-03-24 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [HB2477 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2016-HB2477-Amended.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2477
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016		H.D. 2
STATE OF HAWAII		S.D. 1

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO STATE EMPLOYEES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Chapter 76, part I, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§76- Maximum percentage of civil service exempt positions; executive branch. (a) The number of executive branch employees exempt from the civil service laws of this chapter shall not exceed per cent of the total number of executive branch employees.

(b) If, according to three consecutive annual profile reports submitted by the director of human resources development pursuant to section 76-1.5, the percentage of executive branch employees exempt from civil service laws exceeds the percentage established in subsection (a), each director of a principal department with more than ten employees exempt from civil service laws shall take action, including the submission of proposed legislation if necessary, to remove the civil service exemptions of at least per cent of the employees in that department; provided that this subsection shall not apply to the attorney general, chairperson of the board of education, and president of the University of Hawaii.

(c) For purposes of this section, "executive branch employees" means only those employees within the personnel system administered by the department of human resources development and shall not include employees of the department of the attorney general, department of education, University of Hawaii, Hawaii health systems corporation, and public charter schools, unless an employee is also within the personnel system administered by the department of human resources development due to other employment."

SECTION 2. Section 76-1.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) The director of human resources development shall compile a profile on the workforce of the executive branch of the State that shall include:

(1) Demographic data on the entire executive branch workforce covering both civil service employees hired through recruitment procedures based on merit and employees exempt from such procedures;

(2) Breakouts of the data required by paragraph (1) for the systems administered by the department of human resources development, the board of education, the University of Hawaii board of regents, and the Hawaii health systems corporation, respectively; [~~and~~]

(3) Information on the number of employees who are currently eligible for retirement and projected retirements for the succeeding five years[.]; and

(4) For the previous year, the number of employees within the personnel system administered by the department of human resources development that were exempt from civil service and the percentage of the total number of employees within the personnel system administered by the department of human resources development that were exempt from civil service. For purposes of this paragraph, employees within the personnel system administered by the department of human resources development shall not include employees of:

(A) The department of education;

(B) The department of the attorney general;

(D) Any public charter school; and

(E) The Hawaii health systems corporation."

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2091.

Report Title:

Maximum Percentage of Civil Service Employees; Executive Branch

Description:

Requires that the number of civil service exempt employees not exceed a certain percentage in the executive branch, excluding the department of education, department of the attorney general, University of Hawaii, any public charter school, and Hawaii health systems corporation. Requires the department of human resources development to report on the number of exempt executive employees. Requires departments to reduce the number of exempt employees if the total exceeds a certain percentage. Effective July 1, 2091. (SD1)

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