Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 317, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow University of Hawaii faculty members, lecturers, or administrative, professional, and technical employees with multiple part-time appointments to aggregate the service from these part-time positions in order to meet eligibility requirements for membership in the Employees' Retirement System.

Your Committee finds that the University currently employs faculty members, lecturers, and administrative, professional, and technical employees in multiple appointments, depending upon current programmatic needs, in an effort to minimize costs and maximize efficiency of staff utilization. The employment of full-time faculty or staff positions is only contemplated when long-term need has been adequately justified.

This bill safeguards the retirement benefits of present and future University faculty, lecturers, and administrative, professional, and technical employees by making them eligible for membership in the Employees' Retirement System based upon the aggregation of multiple part-time positions. This solution allows the University to continue its efforts to achieve the maximum utilization of its resources while providing for the retirement of University employees.

Past and present university faculty members, lecturers, and administrative, professional, and technical employees will also be allowed to retain the membership benefits for which the University has reported them to be eligible for prior to the effective date of this measure.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by making technical changes on page 3, line 1, and in the bill description to change "and" to "or".

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 H.B. No. 317, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 317, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.