STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3058

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1588

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Human Services and Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1588, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO QUALIFIED COMMUNITY REHABILITATION PROGRAMS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify that the exemption from civil service laws for personnel contracted for custodial and grounds maintenance services with qualified community rehabilitation programs applies when the contracts last no more than one year and at a maximum cost of $850,000 per contract, not $850,000 in the aggregate of contracts held.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the Mayor, County of Maui; Department of Parks and Recreation, County of Maui; Goodwill Industries of Hawaii; Lanakila Pacific; Ka Lima O Maui; and twenty-one individuals.

     Your Committees find that the exemption from civil service laws for personal service contracts for custodial and grounds maintenance programs with qualified community rehabilitation programs is meant to help individuals with disabilities engage in meaningful work through service contracts with state and county governments.  Your Committees find that this measure will ensure that the number of individuals with disabilities who want to engage in meaningful work will not be limited due to interpretation of the maximum contract amount established in section 76-77, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2014.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Judiciary and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1588, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1588, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Judiciary and Labor,

____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair

____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair