STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2850

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 578

S.D. 3

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Ways and Means and Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 578, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to assist the Department of the Attorney General in temporarily filling certain positions.

Specifically, this measure:

(1) Authorizes the Department of the Attorney General to employ retirants of the Employees' Retirement System as investigators without re-enrolling in the Employees' Retirement System if the position is identified as a labor shortage or difficult-to-fill position; and

(2) Requires the appropriate director of human resources to report the employment of those retirants to the Legislature.

Your Committees received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of the Attorney General.

Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Law Enforcement and Employees' Retirement System.

Your Committees find that the Department of Agriculture has also been experiencing difficulty filling management positions excluded from collective bargaining and that adding a similar authorization for qualified retirants will assist the State in temporarily filling those positions.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Authorizing the Department of Agriculture to hire retirants of the Employees' Retirement System for management positions excluded from collective bargaining, under certain conditions; and

(2) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Ways and Means and Judiciary that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 578, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 578, S.D. 3.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Ways and Means and Judiciary,

________________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair

________________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair