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 S.B. No. 2718, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to increase the compensation of officials of the legislative service agencies by amending their statutorily established salaries and appropriating general funds for those raises.

This bill raises to an unspecified level the salaries of the Auditor, the Director of the Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB), and the Ombudsman, as well as those of their respective first assistants or first deputies.

The Auditor, Office of the Ombudsman, LRB, and Department of the Attorney General submitted testimony in support of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

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 S.B. No. 2718, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2718, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.