HB2375

Report Title:

Emergency Environmental Workforce

Description:

Extends contract period from 3 to 6 months for individuals hired under the emergency environmental workforce. Appropriates unspecified amount to fund the extension.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2375
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to the emergency environmental workforce.

 

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

SECTION 1. This Act is recommended by the governor for immediate passage in accordance with section 9 of article VII of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.

SECTION 2. Act 4, Third Special Session, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, appropriated funds for the establishment of an emergency environmental workforce for short-term employment for individuals who have lost their jobs because of Hawaii's recent economic downturn. However, individuals were only employed as three-month contract employees. The purpose of this Act is to extend the contract period from three months to six months and to make an appropriation for that program.

SECTION 3. Act 4, Third Special Session, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, is amended by amending section 2 to read as follows:

"SECTION 2. There is established the emergency environmental workforce to be attached to The Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii for administrative purposes. The emergency environmental workforce shall:

(1) Employ approximately four hundred to four hundred fifty individuals who were terminated from their jobs after the September 11 tragedy as a result of the local economic downturn. The individuals shall be employed as [three-month] six-month contract employees;

(2) Deploy contract employees to all island mayors certifying a need for environmental clearance and eradication services to supplement current services being provided for the isolation of dengue fever, the eradication of the miconia plant and other invasive plants, and the reduction of coqui frog and fire ant populations; and

(3) Coordinate its efforts with the efforts of the invasive species committee on each island."

SECTION 4. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $          , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001-2002, to fund the extension of contracts for individuals hired under the emergency environmental workforce.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by The Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 5. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

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