Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor and Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 3018, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow a police officer who:

(1) Has at least ten years of credited service;

(2) Suffers from a service-connected disability; and

to receive a retirement allowance of 2-1/2 percent of the average final compensation for each year of credited service as a police officer.

The State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers, Department of Human Resources of the City and County of Honolulu, Honolulu Police Department, and Employees' Retirement System testified in support of this bill. The Department of Budget and Finance commented on this measure.

After careful consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by deleting its substance, and inserting the provisions of House Bill No. 2262, House Draft 1, a measure previously reported out from your Committee and passed by the House on Third Reading.

As amended, this bill is substantially similar to Senate Bill No. 3018, Senate Draft 2, with the following differences:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor and Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3018, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3018, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.