STAND

STAND. COM. REP. NO.911-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 2556

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

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 S.B. No. 2556, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Specify that the Board of Directors (Board) of the Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) shall set the duties, responsibilities, holidays, vacations, leaves, hours of work, and working conditions of the Executive Director of the HTA;

(2) Allows the Board to grant other benefits for the Executive Director as the Board deems necessary; and

(3) Exempts the Executive Director from the Employees' Retirement System.

The HTA offered comments.

Your Committees have amended this measure by deleting its substance and inserting the contents of H.B. No. 2195, which limits the salary level used in calculating the average final compensation of the Executive Director of the HTA, for retirement purposes, to the level set for state department heads in section 26-52(3), Hawaii Revised Statutes. This bill is retroactive to January 18, 2002.

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 S.B. No. 2556, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2556, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Tourism and Culture and Labor and Public Employment,

____________________________ SCOTT K. SAIKI, Chair		____________________________ JERRY CHANG, Chair