STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2617

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2933
                                        




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. 2933 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIME VICTIM COMPENSATION
     COMMISSION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to permit the Crime Victim
Compensation Commission to appoint a civil service-exempt
executive director and administrative assistant.

     Your Committee finds that the Commission currently lacks
statutory authority to hire a civil service-exempt leadership
team.  As a result, the Commission's current administrator was
hired as an emergency special hire.  Your Committee finds that
the lack of statutory authority to hire a civil service-exempt
leadership team negatively impacts the stability of permanent
staffing and impairs the effectiveness of the Commission's
statutory mission to assist crime victims.  Furthermore, your
Committee believes that the Commission should have the same
statutory authority with respect to appointing exempt leadership
positions as other state programs that provide direct services to
our citizenry.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your

 
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Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2933 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

                                 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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