HB2534

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2534
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO THE HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM.

 

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

SECTION 1. Security services are a vital component of the library services to provide a safe and secure environment. Uniform security personnel reduces or minimizes disruptive behavior and unpleasant incidents within the library and all of its surround, and allows the library staff to concentrate on providing quality and prompt library services to its customers. Since 1993 security coverage has been reduced dramatically due to budget restrictions, cuts and hiring delays and freezes.

The purpose of this measure is to transfer public safety functions and employees from the Department of Public Safety to the Hawaii state public library system to maintain a safe and secure environment for our patrons and employees more efficiently.

SECTION 2. Section 26-14.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (h) to read as follows:

"(h) Effective July 1, 1999,] the functions and authority heretofore exercised by the director of public safety and the department of public safety relating to after hours security contracts at department of education facilities, except for the security functions being performed by employees of the public library system as well as the contractual security services for the libraries, shall be transferred to the department education.

SECTION 3. All rights, powers, functions, and duties of the department of public safety relating to the after hour security contracts at department of education facilities shall be transferred to the department of education and the Hawaii state public library system.

All officers and employees of the department of public safety whose functions are transferred by this Act shall be transferred with their functions and shall continue to perform their regular duties upon the transfer, subject to the state personnel laws and this Act.

No officer or employee of the State having tenure who is transferred by this Act shall suffer any loss of salary, seniority, prior service credit, vacation, sick leave, or other employee benefit or privilege as a consequence of this Act, and such officer or employee may be transferred or appointed to a civil service position without the necessity of examination; provided that the officer or employee possess the minimum qualifications for the position to which transferred or appointed; and provided that subsequent changes in status may be made pursuant to applicable civil service and compensation laws.

An officer or employee of the State who does not have any tenure and who may be transferred or appointed to a civil service position as a consequence of the measure shall become a civil service employee without any loss of salary, seniority, prior service credit, vacation, sick leave, or other employee benefits or privileges and without the necessity of examination; provided that the officer or employee possess the minimum qualifications for the position to which transferred or appointed.

In the event that an officer or position held by an officer or employee having tenure is abolished, the officer or employee shall not thereby be separated from public employment, but shall remain in the employment of the State with the same pay and position for which the officer or employee is eligible under the personnel laws of the State as determined by the head of the department or the governor.

SECTION 4. All appropriations, records, equipment, machines, files, supplies, contracts, books, papers, documents, maps, and other personal property heretofore made, used, acquired, or held by the department of public safety relating to the functions transferred to the Hawaii state public library system by this measure shall be transferred with the functions to which they relate.

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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