Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 828 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow state correctional officers to retire after twenty-five years of credited service, regardless of age.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Public Safety, the United Public Workers, and seventy-six state correctional officers.

Your Committees find that state correctional officers perform the same law enforcement and public safety functions as police officers, firefighters, and other safety personnel, but are not able to utilize the same retirement criteria afforded to other law enforcement personnel. This measure is designed to promote parity in retirement eligibility by allowing state correctional officers to retire after accumulating twenty-five years of credited service, regardless of age.

Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, non-substantive amendments for purposes of clarity.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 828, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 828, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.