Bill Text: HI SB690 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Intergovernmental Exchange or Movements of Civil Service Employees

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB690 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB690-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1172

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   S.B. No. 690

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 690, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INTERGOVERNMENTAL MOVEMENTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to allow for civil service employees to be moved or exchanged between state, county, and federal government positions if certain conditions are met.

 

     The Department of Human Resources of the City and County of Honolulu, Department of Civil Service of the County of Hawaii, and Department of Personnel Services of the County of Maui testified in opposition to this bill.

 

     Act 253, Session Laws of Hawaii 2000, was intended to reform the civil service system.  In doing so, however, certain transfer rights and benefits afforded state and county employees were repealed.  Although state and county departments have continued to allow movements of employees between and among their jurisdictions under the current civil service law and rules adopted in accordance with that law, your Committee finds that this measure will statutorily restore these rights and benefits.

     While no testimony was received in support of this measure, your Committee notes that the main concern by those opposed to this bill was the use of a selection process for exchanges or movements of personnel using an open-competitive civil service recruitment process.  Accordingly, your Committee has amended this bill by removing language requiring gaining jurisdictions to determine an employee's fitness and qualifications for the class or position to which the employee is being exchanged or moved through an open-competitive civil service recruitment process.

 

     Your Committee has further amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Removing language restricting the eligibility to participate in intergovernmental exchanges or movements to permanent civil service positions in the sending jurisdiction;

 

     (2)  Removing language requiring employees participating in intergovernmental exchanges or movements to hold only permanent civil service positions in the gaining jurisdiction;

 

     (3)  Providing the Director of Human Resources Development the ability to require a noncompetitive examination of an employee to determine the employee's fitness and qualifications for the class to which the employee is being exchanged or moved;

 

     (4)  Removing language establishing an initial probationary period for participating employees for positions in the gaining agency; and

 

     (5)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 690, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 690, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

		____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair