Report Title:

Crime Victim Compensation; Commission Staff

 

Description:

Exempts existing and new employees of the Commission for Crime Victim Compensation from civil service law as established in Chapter 76.  (HB1493 HD2 SD1)

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1493

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007

H.D. 2

STATE OF HAWAII

S.D. 1

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to THE crime victim compensation COMMISSION.

 

 

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

 

     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that it is necessary to encourage people to apply for positions on the crime victim compensation commission to ensure that the commission is staffed sufficiently.

     The purpose of this Act is to encourage people to apply for positions on the crime victim compensation commission by excepting applicants from the civil service law as established in chapter 76, Hawaii Revised Statutes, but providing new staff members with the right to bargain collectively, as established in chapter 89, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     SECTION 2.  Section 351-69, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§351-69  Commission staff.  (a)  Supervisory, administrative, and clerical personnel necessary for the efficient functioning of the commission shall be appointed as provided in section 26-35[.] without regard to chapter 76, but subject to chapter 89, and provided that:

     (1)  No position filled as of the effective date of this Act by an employee appointed pursuant to chapter 76 shall be affected by this Act; and

     (2)  Upon becoming vacant, any position filled as of the effective date of this Act by an employee appointed pursuant to chapter 76 shall be filled by an employee appointed without regard to chapter 76.

     (b)  An executive director and an administrative assistant shall be appointed, without regard to [[]chapter 76[]], for the proper administration and enforcement of this chapter."

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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon approval.