STAND. COM. REP. NO.  365-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2273

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2273 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CIVIL SERVICE,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to acknowledge the valuable service and sacrifice of veterans of the armed services by specifying the conditions under which veterans qualify for a civil service hiring preference.

 

     The Military Officers Association of America-Hawaii Chapter testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Human Resources Development testified in opposition to this measure.  The Judiciary provided comments.

 

     In recent years the number of individuals in the armed services serving long tours on active duty has increased.  In the past, most members of the National Guard and military reserves either did not serve on active duty long enough to qualify for hiring preferences when applying for civil service jobs, or were unaware of the qualifications for the hiring preference.  This measure addresses this issue by making the criteria for the veteran's preference for civil service jobs well defined so as to be easily understood.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by changing the effective date to July 1, 2112, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2273, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2273, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs and Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair		____________________________ ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair