STAND. COM. REP. NO. 754

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1314
                                        S.D. 2




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 1314, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RETIREMENT BENEFITS FOR
     TRUSTEES OF THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this administration bill is to provide
retirement benefits for trustees and former trustees of the
Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

     Your Committee finds that prior to July 1, 1982, the
Employees' Retirement System provided Office of Hawaiian Affairs'
trustees with the same retirement benefits as other elective
officials.  However, Act 165, Session Laws of Hawaii 1982,
changed the definition of "elective official" in the Employees'
Retirement System law, thereby effectively excluding Office of
Hawaiian Affairs' trustees from this definition.  In 1993, Act
358, Session Laws of Hawaii 1993, provided Office of Hawaiian
Affairs' trustees with a salary and included them in all benefit
plans available to other public employees except for retirement
benefits.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making the benefits
prospective, applicable to trustees who are in service on or
after July 1, 1999.

 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
1314, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1314,
S.D. 2.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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