STAND. COM. REP. NO. 416-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 101
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor and Public Employment, to which was
referred H.B. No. 101 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BUYBACK OF EMPLOYEES'
     RETIREMENT SYSTEM MEMBERSHIP SERVICE CREDIT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow retired members of the
Employees' Retirement System (ERS) who performed fingerprinting
identification during the war years the opportunity to buy back
their lost months of temporary membership service credit during
the war years.

     Testimony in support of this bill was submitted by the
United Public Workers and a concerned individual.  Testimony in
opposition to this bill was submitted by the ERS.

     Your Committee finds that these individuals may not have
been fully informed of their right to buy-back their lost months
of temporary hire when it occurred during the war years.  

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the date by
which a retired member may purchase membership service credit to
December 31, 2000.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Labor and Public Employment that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 101, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass

 
 
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Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 101, H.D.
1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   TERRY NUI YOSHINAGA, Chair