Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3106 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow counties to enter into an agreement with the State to extend the State's mandatory deferred compensation plans for part-time, temporary, and seasonal or casual employees to county part-time, temporary, and seasonal or casual employees, provided that the county designates an agency to coordinate the plan.

Your Committee finds that by allowing the counties the opportunity to join the state deferred compensation retirement plan, the counties would not have to create a duplicate structure of boards, administrative support, and contractual arrangements, thereby expediting and facilitating the implementation of the county plans.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3106, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3106, S.D. 1.