STAND. COM. REP. NO. 32-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 1345
                                     S.D. 2
                                     H.D. 2




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

Sir:
     Your Committees on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No.
1345, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION IN
     THE JUDICIARY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of the bill is to:

     (1)  Increase judicial salaries by an unspecified amount
          over two years;

     (2)  Appropriate unspecified amounts for each year of fiscal
          biennium 1999-2001 for judicial salaries; and

     (3)  Change the retirement provisions for judges entering or
          re-entering service after June 30, 1999.

     For purposes of public input and discussion, your Committee
circulated and made available to the public a proposed draft of
this bill that:

     (1)  Provided a judicial salary increase of eleven per cent
          for each year of a two-year period beginning July 1,
          1999;

     (2)  Deleted the appropriation provision for judicial
          salaries; and


 
 
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     (3)  Deleted the retirement provisions for judges entering
          or reentering service after June 30, 1999.

     Testimony in support of the proposed draft of this bill was
received from the Judiciary, the United Public Workers, and
Hawaii Women Lawyers.

     Your Committee made several technical, nonsubstantive
amendments to the proposed draft of this bill for purposes of
clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
1345, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it
pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1345,
S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Finance,



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair