STAND. COM. REP. NO. 948-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 1556

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1556, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE EMPLOYMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish and appropriate funds for permanent positions within the Employee Staffing Division of the Department of Human Resources Development for the recruitment and retention of state employees.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Resources Development.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the number of full-time equivalent positions to an unspecified number.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1556, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1556, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair