STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2058-26

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2026

RE: S.B. No. 99

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2026

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 99, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Allow a retirant to be employed without reenrollment in the Employees' Retirement System and without loss or interruption of retirement benefits if the retirant is employed as a school resource officer identified as a labor shortage or difficult-to-fill position and stationed at a public school, subject to certain conditions;

(2) Establish criteria for various agencies to use in identifying labor shortage or difficult-to-fill positions; and

(3) Require state and county agencies to include in their annual reports to the Legislature details on the employment of retirants as school resource officers.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Judiciary and Department of the Attorney General. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Board of Trustees of the Employees' Retirement System.

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. 99, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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CHRIS TODD, Chair