Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2580 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to fund salary increases and other cost adjustments authorized for employees of the following legislative agencies:

(1) The Office of the Auditor;

(2) The Hawaii State Ethics Commission;

(4) The Office of the Ombudsman,

by chapter 89C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which relates to public officers and employees excluded from collective bargaining.

The Hawaii State Ethics Commission, Office of the Ombudsman, LRB, and Hawaii Government Employees Association, Managerial and Confidential Employees Chapter, testified in support of this bill.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2580 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.