STAND. COM. REP. NO.2613

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2692
                                        S.D. 2




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. 2692, S.D. 1, entitled:

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SALARIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to provide salary adjustments
for certain appointed judiciary administrative officers.

     Effective July 1, 2001, the bill also authorizes the chief
justice to determine the salary of these administrative officers
based on merit and other factors.

     Your Committee finds that Hawaii is the only state that has
not increased the salary for judiciary administrative officers in
the last ten years, while some states have increased salaries two
times.  Further, collective bargaining agreements have given some
judiciary staff members higher salaries than the administrative
officers to whom they report.  This measure corrects that salary
difference and more fairly compensates the administrative
officers in relationship to their responsibilities, experience,
and qualifications.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
measure by changing the amounts appropriated to unspecified
amounts to facilitate continuing discussion on this matter.


 
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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.
2692, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2692, 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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