STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3251

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2658

H.D. 1

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 Labor and Technology, to which was referred H.B. No. 2658, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to repeal the requirement that the Director of Human Resources Development must submit a report to the Legislature before reclassifying and abolishing vacant positions within state departments and agencies that are under the jurisdiction of the Department.

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

Your Committee finds that existing law requires the Director of Human Resources Development to submit a report to the Legislature before abolishing or reclassifying vacant positions within State departments and agencies that are under the Department's jurisdiction. Your Committee also finds that there are other measures currently moving through the legislative process that require more detailed reports on the same subject matter, making the original reporting requirement redundant. Therefore, this measure will remove this redundancy.

Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2024.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor and Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2658, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2658, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor and Technology,

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair