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. 3106, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow the counties to enter into an agreement with the State to extend the State's mandatory deferred compensation plans to part-time, temporary, and seasonal or casual county employees.

The Mayor of Maui County, members of the Maui County Council, and County of Maui supported this bill. The Department of Human Resources Development supported the intent of this measure.

Your Committee finds that this measure would allow counties to offer deferred compensation plans without the duplication of effort involved in establishing and maintaining separate plans in each county. However, your Committee also recognizes that the State may incur additional costs because of this measure.

Accordingly, your Committee has amended this bill by:

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. 3106, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3106, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.