STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2195

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 578

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 578 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the law relating to government.

Prior to the hearing on this measure, your Committee posted and made available for public review a proposed S.D. 1, which amended this measure by deleting its contents and replacing it with language that allows a retirant to be employed without re‑enrollment in the Employees' Retirement System and without suffering a loss or interruption of pension or health benefits provided by the Employees' Retirement System or the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund if the retirant is employed as an investigator in a position identified by the Department of the Attorney General as a labor shortage or difficult-to-fill position, subject to certain conditions.

Your Committee finds that this measure will assist the Department of the Attorney General in filling certain staffing vacancies with qualified, experienced investigators.

Your Committee has amended this measure by adopting the proposed S.D. 1.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 578, as amended herein, and recommends that it be recommitted to your Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 578, S.D. 1, for further consideration.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair