STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1003

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1528

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1528, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to adjust the salaries of certain department heads and other positions, including the:

(1) Chief Election Officer;

(2) Auditor;

(3) Legislative Reference Bureau Director;

(4) Chairperson of the Hawaii Labor Relations Board;

(5) Ombudsman;

(6) State Procurement Office;

(7) Stadium Authority Manager;

(8) Vice-director of Civil Defense;

(9) Deputy for Water Resource Management;

 

(10) Executive Director of the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii;

(11) Public Utilities Commission Chairperson;

(12) Recycling Coordinator;

(13) Hawaii Paroling Authority Chairperson;

(14) Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board Chairperson;

(15) Commissioner of Financial Institutions;

(16) State Public Defender;

(17) Director of the Executive Office on Aging;

(18) Director of the Office of Veterans' Services; and

(19) Executive Director of the Office of Community

Services.

The Department of Budget and Finance, Department of Human Resource Development, the Adjutant General, the Auditor, Legislative Reference Bureau, Office of the Ombudsman, and several concerned individuals supported this bill. The Hawaii Paroling Authority supported the intent of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity,

consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1528, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1528, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

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DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Chair