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F. 7 ..�.. - �. rm 1 'i ,. . SUPREME COURT OF IIAWAIL-22 1 Opinion of the Court f and compensation matters to remain with the legislature.The_j it • committee report refers to"personnel" and "personnel mat- .1 . ters," and these words and phrases should be given their literal and ordinarily accepted meaning unless the context indicates otherwise. State v. Anderson, supra. "The term 'personnel matters' is given no peculiar limited meaning... • State v. Hernandez, 89 N.M. 698. 699. 566 I'.2d 1174. 1175 • . (1976). In this sense the term refers to and embraces both IIRS chapters 76 and 77 in Their entirety. That the framers considered such matters to be of state- •wide concern and used the terms "personnel" and "per- ' sonnel matters" in their broadest sense is further evidenced `. i _i, , by the debates of the Committee of. the Whole on Local i a l Government: f 1 DELEGATE USHIJIA•IA [Chairman of Standing Committee]: Well, Section 2 is the charter provision. We have by our action given certain areas constitutional right • 1 insofar as charter provisions are concerned. and that is in the field of executive, legislative, administrative strut-. lure and organization.l think the conrnrittee report is very a . clear as to the reasons why- we left out procedure and personnel. TT"e have had lots of witnesses who testified that • insofar as personnel matters arc concerned, we should r retain it on a statewide level and retain the philosophy of Act 188 which is presently in force. [Vol. II. Proceedings - 1 of the Constitutional•Convention of Hawaii of 1968, at •1 422.] (Emphasis added) , } ik Act 188 to which the committed report and Delegate Ushi- , jima referred, and given by the framers as an example of personnel-oriented laws exempted from the operation of Sec- tion 2, is a statute of state-wide application on both the • administrative and policy levels. The act defines the func- 1 • tions of the civil service commission with respect to the i compensation law. It also provides for the creation of a State i . i appeal board to hear appeals arising under the compensation •. law. The cost of its operations is borne by the State. Its membership is composed of one civil service commission member from each jurisdiction who is appointed by the gov-