Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Tourism and Culture and Labor and Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2195 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to limit the salary level used in calculating the average final compensation of the Executive Director of the Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA), for retirement purposes, to the level set for state department heads in section 26-52(3), Hawaii Revised Statutes. This bill would be retroactive to January 18, 2002.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the HTA.

Your Committees find that this bill would enable HTA to hire the best qualified individual to fill the Executive Director position at a commensurate salary, without adversely impacting the state retirement fund.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Tourism and Culture and Labor and Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2195 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.