STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2806

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3371

S.D. 2

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. 3371, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TELEWORKING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to assist the gathering and dissemination of information about state employee teleworking.

Specifically, this measure:

(1) Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to submit an annual report on state teleworking use and policies;

(2) Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to purchase and implement a telework monitoring system to measure productivity of state employees; and

(3) Appropriates moneys to purchase and implement the telework monitoring system.

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

Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the Hawaii Government Employee Association.

Your Committee received comments on this measure from the State Procurement Office.

Your Committee finds that gathering and disseminating data on state employee teleworking will help to guide future legislation, policy recommendations, and decision-making, and will help assure the public that state employees who telework remain productive.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Clarifying that the telework monitoring system shall be obtained through a National Association of State Procurement Officials cooperative contract or a procurement subject to Chapter 103D, Hawaii Revised Statutes (Hawaii Public Procurement Code); and

(2) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 3371, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3371, S.D. 2.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair