STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2106

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: S.B. No. 1490

S.D. 1

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1490, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Require the Attorney General to defend professionally licensed or certified state employees from civil actions or proceedings, subject to certain circumstances; and

(2) Require the State, if it refuses to defend a state employee from civil actions on certain grounds, to file a motion to be heard with the court.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Human Services and Department of the Attorney General.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to June 30, 3000, to encourage further discussion.

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 S.B. No. 1490, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1490, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair