Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1469 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to increase the benefit and compensation for a non-civil service agent who issues marriage licenses.

Specifically, this measure establishes a surcharge in addition to the marriage license fee that is currently prescribed to compensate the agents for their work.

Your Committee finds that the current benefit and $9 compensation rate for a non-civil service agent who issues marriage licenses has not changed since 1998. As this is insufficient to meet the operating costs of an agent, this measure will ensure that these agents are adequately compensated for their time and work and that their services remain readily available throughout the State.

Your Committee amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

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. 1469, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1469, S.D. 1.