Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Legislative Management, 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 that of their respective first assistants or first deputies.

The Auditor, LRB, and the Ombudsman testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee finds that there have been no raises in salary for these legislative officials since 1989, resulting in an eroding pay differential with the staff of their offices and the potential loss of parity with their counterparts in the other branches of state government.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Legislative Management that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2718, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.