Bill Text: HI SB166 | 2019 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To The State Budget.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-12 - Act 059, 06/07/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1160). [SB166 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2019-SB166-Amended.html
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that staff vacancies continue to plague the executive departments in carrying out their individual missions and functions. The department of human resources development is responsible for providing leadership and assistance to state departments to recruit and retain the best and brightest employees necessary to fill critical vacancies. The department of human resources development is currently working with other state departments in identifying solutions to problems in recruitment, which include streamlining the recruitment process; simplifying the class specifications, including minimum qualifications; and developing competitive salary programs. To find solutions for recruitment problems, the department of human resources development is proposing to establish a recruitment modernization program and has identified departments to test and implement solutions to the recruitment problems of the State.
The purpose of this Act is to establish a recruitment modernization program within the department of human resources development that will further the purposes of section 78-3.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to address recruitment problems faced by the State's executive departments.
SECTION 2. There is established within the department of human resources development a recruitment modernization program that shall:
(1) Develop and evaluate innovative methods of compensation to be competitive in the current employment market;
(2) Identity and modify, as appropriate, position classifications that require updating;
(3) Develop innovative methods for recruitment, including the:
(A) Opening of intern positions that lead to employment;
(B) Customization of the department's recruitment software to expedite hiring; and
(C) Updating of the department's job announcement website; and
(4) Train and assist departmental human resources staff in meeting the staffing needs of their departments.
SECTION 3. The department of human resources development shall prepare a report on the recruitment modernization program, which shall include:
(1) Criteria for the evaluation of the program;
(2) Information on any improvement in executive departments' recruitment and hiring rates;
(3) Information on any innovative methods developed, and the results of implementing those methods; and
(4) Other findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to address recruitment needs of state executive departments.
The department shall submit its report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2020.
SECTION 4. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2019-2020 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2020-2021 to establish the recruitment modernization program pursuant to section 2 of this Act and full-time equivalent ( FTE) positions to implement the recruitment modernization program.
The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of human resources development for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2050.
Report Title:
DHRD; Recruitment Modernization Program; Appropriation
Description:
Establishes in the Department of Human Resources Development a recruitment modernization program to address employee recruitment problems faced by the State's executive departments. Makes an appropriation to establish the program and positions to implement the program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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