STAND. COM. REP. 892
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: S.B. No. 62
S.D. 1
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 62, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to:
(1) Allow current and future University of Hawaii (UH) faculty members, lecturers, and administrative, professional, and technical employees to qualify for membership in the Employees' Retirement System (ERS) on the basis of aggregated multiple part-time appointments or positions; and
(2) Allow past and current UH faculty members, lecturers, and administrative, professional, and technical employees who held multiple part-time appointments or positions prior to the effective date of the bill and who were reported to the ERS by UH to be eligible for the system on the basis of aggregated multiple part-time appointments or positions to retain membership benefits if the employee fails to meet system membership eligibility requirements without the aggregation of multiple part-time appointments or positions.
The UH Professional Assembly and Hawaii Government Employees Association submitted testimony in support of this bill. UH submitted testimony in support of this bill with proposed amendments. ERS submitted testimony in support of the intent of this bill.
Your Committee finds that it is common for UH employees to serve in multiple part-time appointments or positions. This bill will ensure that these valuable employees continue to receive retirement benefits.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Enabling UH to establish an optional employee retirement plan; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style and clarity.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 62, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 62, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Labor and Public Employment.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education,
____________________________ K. MARK TAKAI, Chair |
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