Bill Text: HI SB2515 | 2018 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Relating To State Employment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-23 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) C. Lee, Lowen, McDermott, Souki, Tokioka excused (5). [SB2515 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2018-SB2515-Amended.html

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THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2515
TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2018		S.D. 2
STATE OF HAWAII		H.D. 1

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO STATE EMPLOYMENT.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  Section 76-11.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "[[]§76-11.6[]]  Special, research, or demonstration project positions.  (a)  Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, with the approval of the governor, the head of a department may establish and abolish any subordinate position for an employee engaged in a special, research, or demonstration project that is approved by the governor[,] and that is partially or wholly funded by federal funds, subject to the limitations of available appropriations[.]; provided that the total number of special, research, or demonstration project positions created shall not exceed       per cent of the total number of state employees.

     (b)  The governor shall submit a report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of each regular session on the positions established and abolished pursuant to this Act and the means of financing of each of these positions."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2050.

 

Report Title:

State Employment; Authority to Establish Positions

 

Description:

Amends the authority for department heads to establish federally funded positions for special, research, and demonstration projects approved by the governor, subject to an unspecified cap.  Requires Governor to submit an annual report.  (SB2515 HD1)

 

 

 

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