STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2612

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2675
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2675 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 raise the maximum salary of
the Executive Director of the State Ethics Commission to be equal
to that of a department head.

     Your Committee finds that the salary of the executive head
of an agency should exceed that of its associate director, and,
if it does not, can be a source of friction in any agency.  This
unfairness needs to be addressed in the case of the State Ethics
Commission.  This measure is designed to increase the pay of the
Executive Director so that this inequity no longer continues.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by requiring the salary
of the Executive Director of the Ethics Commission to be five per
cent above the pay level of the Associate Director.

     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.
2675, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2675, S.D. 1.


 
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                                 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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