STAND. COM. REP. NO. 200

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 690

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Labor and Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 690 entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to allow for the exchange or movement of civil service employees between the State and any county, between counties, between the federal government and the State, or between the federal government and any county; provided that certain conditions are met.

 

     Testimony in support of the intent of the measure was submitted by one state agency, two county agencies, and one organization.  Written testimony presented to your Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committees find that the provisions of this measure were previously codified by section 76‑36, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which was repealed by Act 253, Session Laws of Hawaii 2000.  Currently, temporary exchanges and movement of civil service employees between state, county, and federal government jurisdictions is authorized under section 78‑27, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

     Your Committees further find that allowing intergovernmental movement and exchanges would restore to permanent civil service employees certain rights, benefits, and privileges previously provided by the law.

 

     Your Committees agree with the Department of Human Resources Development's proposed amendments and additional conditions governing intergovernmental exchanges and movement.

 

     Accordingly, your Committees have amended the measure as follows:

 

     (1)  Allowing only permanent civil service employees to participate, and requiring that participating employees be exchanged or moved to permanent civil service positions;

 

     (2)  Requiring employees to meet public employment requirements in addition to the minimum qualification and other requirements of the class or position to which they are to be exchanged or moved;

 

     (3)  Requiring that employees be selected through an open-competitive civil service recruitment process conducted by the gaining jurisdiction;

 

     (4)  Requiring that employees serve an initial probation period with the gaining agency in a permanent civil service position, pursuant to section 76‑27, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and

 

     (5)  Adding definitions for the terms "sending jurisdiction" and "gaining jurisdiction".

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor and Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 690, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 690, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Labor and Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs,

 

____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair		____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair