STAND. COM. REP. NO. 366

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 895
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Labor and Environment and Judiciary, to
which was referred S.B. No. 895 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO SUPPORT
     SHORTAGE CATEGORY DECLARATION FOR PERSONNEL IN THE JUDICIARY
     IN THE STATE OF HAWAII,"

beg leave to report as follows:
     
     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate money to the
Judiciary to increase wage classifications of qualified technical
personnel in declared shortage categories.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this
measure from the Judiciary.

     Your Committees find that in the past eighteen months the
Judiciary has been actively recruiting to fill vacancies in the
information technology support area, but five positions remain
unfilled.  In competing with other government entities, as well
as the private sector, the Judiciary is currently the lowest
paying government employer which places the Judiciary at a
recruiting disadvantage.

     Your Committees are supportive of the intent of this measure
and believe it will bring the Judiciary in line with other
agencies for salaries of information technology personnel.
However, your Committees defer to the Committee on Ways and Means
in setting the amount of the appropriation and have amended this
measure by changing the dollar amount to zero. 

 
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     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Labor and Environment and Judiciary that are
attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 895, as amended herein, and
recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto
as S.B. No. 895, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways
and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Labor and
                                   Environment and Judiciary,



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AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair        BOB NAKATA, Chair



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MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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