Bill Text: HI SB2811 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

Hawaii Senate Bill 2811 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Qualified Community Rehabilitation Programs; Reports

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-20 - (H) Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Chang, Herkes, Nakashima, Pine, Tokioka excused (5). [SB2811 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2811-Amended.html

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1115-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2012

RE: S.B. No. 2811

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2811 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO QUALIFIED COMMUNITY REHABILITATION PROGRAMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to improve government efficiency by repealing the Department of Human Resources Development�s responsibility to submit annual reports on the expenditures of qualified community rehabilitation programs to the Legislature.

The Department of Human Resources Development testified in support of this measure.

Act 213, Session Laws of Hawaii 2008, modified a statutory exemption from civil service that was made applicable to the counties of Maui, Hawaii, and Kauai and established a higher monetary threshold for certain contract services with qualified community rehabilitation programs. Act 213 also required the Department of Human Resources Development to submit annual reports to the Legislature regarding the expenditures of these programs and their related activities. However, the Department of Human Resources Development only administers the human resources program for the State. County personnel directors are the chief administrators of their respective county human resource programs. Thus, information about county expenditures for their qualified community rehabilitation programs is not available to the Department of Human Resources Development. As Hawaii law does not permit the Executive Branch of the State to contract with qualified community rehabilitation programs, and information from the counties is not available, the Department of Human Resources Development never has any information to report to the Legislature. This measure addresses this issue.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2811 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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KARL RHOADS, Chair