STAND. COM. REP. NO. 86-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2640
                                     




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was
referred H.B. No. 2640 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE SALARY OF THE EXECUTIVE
     DIRECTOR OF THE STATE ETHICS COMMISSION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to give the Hawaii State Ethics
Commission (Commission) the authority to raise the salary of its
executive director up to the level of a department head.

     The Commission and the League of Women Voters of Hawaii
testified in support of this bill.

     Your Committee finds that the executive director is the only
staff member of the Commission whose salary is set in statute,
and the last salary increase was in 1992.  The salaries of the
rest of the Commission's staff are increased in accordance with
increases in the salaries of civil service employees in analogous
positions.  As a result, the salary of the associate director now
exceeds that of the executive director.

     This measures addresses this inequity and assures that the
executive director's salary is comparable to the salaries that
other state officials receive for comparable work and
responsibilities.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Legislative Management that is attached to this

 
 
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report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 2640 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and
be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Legislative
                                   Management,



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                                   EZRA KANOHO, Chair